1958 Cannes Film Festival Explained

1958 Cannes Film Festival
Number:	26 (In Competition) 1 (Out of Competition) 24 (Short Film)
Location:	Cannes, France
Awards:	(The Cranes are Flying)
Date:	–
Founded:	1946
Main:	Cannes Film Festival
Previous:	1957
Next:	1959

The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 18 May 1958.^[1] The went to The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov.^[2]

Jury

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:^[3]

Feature films

• Marcel Achard (France) - Jury President
• Tomiko Asabuki (Japan)
• Bernard Buffet (France)
• Jean De Baroncelli (critic) (France)
• Helmut Käutner (West Germany)
• Dudley Leslie (UK)
• Madeleine Robinson (France)
• Ladislao Vajda (Hungary)
• Charles Vidor (USA)
• Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
• Cesare Zavattini (Italy)

Short films

• Norman McLaren (Canada)
• Jean Mitry (France)
• Krishna Riboud (India)
• Edmond Séchan (France)
• Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)

Feature film competition

The following feature films competed for the :^[4]

• Brink of Life (Nära livet) by Ingmar Bergman
• The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks
• La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel
• Ciulinii Bărăganului by Louis Daquin
• The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov
• Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann
• The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff
• Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers
• Goha by Jacques Baratier
• Iron Flower (Vasvirág) by János Herskó
• Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin
• The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt
• A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi
• A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis
• Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
• Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen
• Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith
• Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray
• Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici
• Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka
• Snow Country (Yukiguni) by Shirō Toyoda
• The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann
• Suburban Romance (Zizkovská romance) by Zbyněk Brynych
• Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
• Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
• Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini

Out of competition

The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:

• Gigi by Vincente Minnelli

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

• A.B.C. by John Fernhout
• Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
• Dubrovacki pasteli by Marijan Vajda
• Egy masodperc tortenete by Ágoston Kollányi
• Gloria dei Medici by Antonio Petrucci
• Goya, una vida apasionada by José María Ochoa
• Slovak: Grafica cloveku by France Kosmac
• Horyû-Ji by Susumu Hani
• La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel
• La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
• Les mystères d'une goutte d'eau by Ann H. Matzner Dr.
• Log Drive by Raymond Garceau
• Mandu by Neil Gokhale
• Nagrodzone uczucia by Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica
• Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiří Brdečka
• Ô saisons ô châteaux by Agnès Varda
• Perameren hylkeenpyytajat by Ulf Backstrom
• Sapte Arte by Ion Popescu-Gopo
• Sintra by João Mendes
• The Story of a Roof by Jamie Uys
• Trees And Jamaica Daddy by Lew Keller
• Voici le pays d'Israel by Jean Lehérissey
• Y gorakh salianskykh by Leonid Belokurov, Y. Przyjemski
• Zimniy prazdnik by Mikhail Slutsky

Awards

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1958 awards:^[5]

The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov

• Best Director

Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life (Nära livet)

• Best Screenplay

Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands (Giovani mariti)

• Best Actress

Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life (Nära livet)

• Best Actor

Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer

• Special Mention:Tatiana Samoylova for Letyat zhuravli
• Jury Prize

• • Goha by Jacques Baratier
  • Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
• Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati

Short films

• Short Film Palme d'Or

• • by Henri Gruel and Jean Suyeux
  • La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
• Special Prize: Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich & Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiri Brnecka

Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prize^[6]

• Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem

Media

• British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1958 footage
• British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
• British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
• INA: Opening of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)
• INA: Celebrities at the 1958 Cannes festival (commentary in French)
• INA: Closure of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)

External links

• 1958 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1958
• Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1958 at Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1958 - Au seuil de la nouvelle vague (On the threshold of the new wave) . cannes-fest.com . fr . 25 May 2017.
2. Web site: 11ème Festival International du Film - Cannes . cinema-francais.fr . fr . 6 June 2017.
3. Web site: Juries 1958 . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100025/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1958/allJury.html . 4 March 2016 . dmy.
4. Web site: Official Selection 1958: All the Selection . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131226221940/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1958/allSelections.html . 26 December 2013 . dmy.
5. News: Awards 1958: All Awards . festival-cannes.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131225140803/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1958/allAward.html . 25 December 2013 . dmy.
6. Web site: FIPRESCI Awards 1958 . fipresci.org . 4 July 2017.