17th Venice International Film Festival

The 17th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 9 September 1956.[1] No Golden Lion was given because there was a tie between The Burmese Harp (Japan) and Calle Mayor (Spain) international jury was unable to decide the winner and the award was declared void.[2][3]

17th Venice International Film Festival
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
Festival date28 August – 9 September 1956
WebsiteWebsite

Jury

Films in competition
English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The AwakeningSuor LetiziaMario CameriniItaly
Bus StopJoshua LoganUSA
Empire in the SunL'impero del soleEnrico GrasItaly
The Captain from KöpenickDer Hauptmann von KöpenickHelmut KäutnerWest Germany
A Hatful of RainFred ZinnemannUSA
The Immortal GarrisonБессмертный гарнизон Bessmertnyy garnizonZakhar Agranenko and Eduard TisseSoviet Union
The Ogre of AthensΟ Δράκος O DrákosNikos KoundourosGreece
Street of Shame赤線地帯 Akasen chitaiKenji MizoguchiJapan
AttackRobert AldrichUSA
Bigger Than LifeNicholas RayUSA
The Burmese Harp (a.k.a. Harp of Burma)ビルマの竪琴 Biruma no tategotoKon IchikawaJapan
The Rocket from CalabuchCalabuchLuis García BerlangaSpain
Main streetCalle MayorJuan Antonio BardemSpain
GervaiseRené ClémentFrance
(lit.) "Bullfighter!"Torero!Carlos VeloMexico
(lit.) "The trip across Paris"La Traversée de ParisClaude Autant-LaraFrance
Big and SmallVeliki i maliVladimir PogačićYugoslavia

Awards
gollark: I utilize the correctiscient graammaticals in my writting.
gollark: Development of the incident report system continues.
gollark: Anyway, I plan to add the ability to search by device (which is technically just a hash of assorted identifying data), search by flag, and search by time.
gollark: Sorry, internet connection failure.
gollark: The flags are colourcoded.

References
  1. "The 1950s [sic]". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  2. Roos, Fred (Spring 1957). "Venice Film Festival, 1956" (PDF). The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television. University of California Press. 11 (3): 249. doi:10.2307/1209744. Retrieved April 5, 2020. The report began with a few sentences of praise for each of the 14 films [sic], and then selected the Japanese Harp of Burma and the Spanish Calle Mayor as being particularly outstanding. Since the jury was unable to decide which of these two films was the superior, it had decided not to award a grand prix "St. Mark Golden Lion" this year.
  3. "17. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia". La Biennale di Venezia (in Italian). Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  4. "Juries for the 1950s [sic]". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.