1964 Cannes Film Festival

1964 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 17th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Jean-Claude Moreau.[1]
Opening film	Cent mille dollars au soleil
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg)[2]
No. of films	25 (In Competition)[3] 3 (Out of Competition) 22 (Short Film)
Festival date	29 April 1964 (1964-04-29) – 14 May 1964 (1964-05-14)
Website	festival-cannes.com/en

The 17th Cannes Film Festival was held from 29 April to 14 May 1964. On this occasion, the Palme d’Or was renamed "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film", a name that remained in use through 1974, after which it became the Palme d'Or again.^[4]

The Grand Prix went to the Les Parapluies de Cherbourg by Jacques Demy. The festival opened with Cent mille dollars au soleil, directed by Henri Verneuil.^[5]

Jury

Fritz Lang, Jury President

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1964 competition:^[6]

Feature films

• Fritz Lang (West Germany) - Jury President
• Charles Boyer (France) Vice President
• Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo (Spain)
• René Clément (France)
• Jean-Jacques Gautier (France) (journalist)
• Alexandre Karaganov (Soviet Union) (critic)
• Lorens Marmstedt (Sweden)
• Geneviève Page (France)
• Raoul Ploquin (France)
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (USA)
• Véra Volmane (France) (journalist)

Short film jury

• Jean-Jacques Languepin (France) - Jury Vice President
• Jiří Brdečka (Czechoslovakia)
• Robert Ménégoz (France)
• Hubert Seggelke (West Germany)
• Alex Seiler (Switzerland)

Official selection

In competition – Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:^[3]

• Alone Across the Pacific (Taiheiyo hitori-botchi) by Kon Ichikawa
• The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia) by Marco Ferreri
• Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) by Glauber Rocha
• The Cry (Krik) by Jaromil Jireš
• Dead Woman from Beverly Hills (Die Tote von Beverly Hills) by Michael Pfleghar
• Drama of the Lark (Pacsirta) by László Ranódy
• The Girl in Mourning (La niña de luto) by Manuel Summers
• Greed in the Sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil) by Henri Verneuil
• I Step Through Moscow (Ya shagayu po Moskve) by Georgi Daneliya
• Last Night (El laila el akhira) by Kamal El Sheikh
• Me First (Primero yo) by Fernando Ayala
• Mujhe Jeene Do by Moni Bhattacharjee
• One Potato, Two Potato by Larry Peerce
• Passenger (Pasażerka) by Andrzej Munk
• The Pumpkin Eater by Jack Clayton
• Raven's End (Kvarteret Korpen) by Bo Widerberg
• The Red Lanterns (Ta Kokkina fanaria) by Vasilis Georgiadis
• Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata) by Pietro Germi
• The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce) by François Truffaut
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy
• The White Caravan (Tetri karavani) by Eldar Shengelaya and Tamaz Meliava
• The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) by Hiroshi Teshigahara
• The World of Henry Orient by George Roy Hill
• The Visit by Bernhard Wicki

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:^[3]

• The Fall of the Roman Empire by Anthony Mann
• Skoplje '63 by Veljko Bulajić
• White Voices (Le voci bianche) by Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:^[3]

• 1,2,3... by Gyula Macskássy, Gyorgy Varnai
• Age Of The Buffalo by Austin Campbell
• Clair obscur by George Sluizer
• Dawn Of The Capricorne by Ahmad Faroughy-Kadjar
• Flora nese smrt by Jiri Papousek
• Help ! My Snowman's Burning Down by Carson Davidson
• Himalayan Lakes by Dr. Gopal Datt
• Kedd by Mark Novak
• La douceur du village by François Reichenbach
• La fuite en Egypte by Waley Eddin Sameh
• Lacrimae rerum by Nicolas Nicolaides
• Lamb by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
• Las murallas de Cartagena by Francisco Norden
• Le prix de la victoire (Défi) by Nobuko Shibuya
• Li mali mestieri by Gianfranco Mingozzi
• Marines Flamandes by Lucien Deroisy
• Max Ernst Entdeckungsfahrten ins Unbewusste by Carl Lamb & Peter Schamoni
• Medju oblacima by Dragan Mitrovic
• Memoria Trandafirului by Sergiu Nicolaescu
• Sillages by Serge Roullet
• The Peaches by Michael Gill
• The Raisin Salesman by William Melendez

Parallel section

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 3rd International Critics' Week (3e Semaine de la Critique):^[7]

• Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy)
• Ganga Zumba by Carlos Diégues (Brazil)
• Goldstein by Philip Kaufman, Benjamin Manaster (United States)
• La Herencia by Ricardo Alventosa (Argentina)
• Joseph Kilian by Pavel Juracek, Jan Schmidt (Czechoslovakia)
• The Parallel Street [ca] (Die Parallelstrasse) by Ferdinand Khittl [de] (West Germany)
• Something Different (O necem jinem) by Vera Chytilová (Czechoslovakia)
• Point of Order by Emile de Antonio (United States)
• La nuit du bossu by Farokh Ghafari (Iran)
• La vie à l’envers by Alain Jessua (France)

Awards

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1964 Official selection awards:^[2]

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy
• Prix spécial du Jury: The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) by Hiroshi Teshigahara
• Best Actress:
  • Anne Bancroft for The Pumpkin Eater
  • Barbara Barrie for One Potato, Two Potato
• Best Actor:
  • Antal Páger for Drama of the Lark (Pacsirta)
  • Saro Urzì for Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata)
• Special Mention: Andrzej Munk for Pasażerka and his entire work

Short films

• Grand Prix du Jury: Le prix de la victoire by Nobuko Shibuya & La douceur du village by François Reichenbach
• Prix spécial du Jury: Help ! My Snowman's Burning Down by Carson Davidson & Sillages by Serge Roullet
• Short film Technical Prize: Dawn Of The Capricorne by Ahmad Faroughy-Kadjar

Independent awards

FIPRESCI^[8][5]

• FIPRESCI Prize: Passenger (Pasażerka) by Andrzej Munk

Commission Supérieure Technique^[5]

• Technical Grand Prize:
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy
  • Dead Woman from Beverly Hills (Die Tote von Beverly Hills) by Michael Pfleghar

OCIC Award^[9]

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy
• Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Kodak Short Film Award^[9]

• Lacrimae rerum by Nicolas Nicolaides

References

1. "Posters 1964". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
2. "Awards 1964 : All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
3. "Official Selection 1964: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
4. "1964 – Les Parasols de Cannes (The Umbrellas of Cannes)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
5. "17ème Festival International du Film – Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
6. "Juries 1964". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
7. "3e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique – 1964". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
8. "FIPRESCI Awards 1964". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
9. "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1964". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

Media

• INA: Opening of the 1964 festival (commentary in French)
• INA: Arrivée des personnalités au Palais des festivals (commentary in French)
• INA: List of winners of the 1964 Cannes Festival (commentary in French)

External links

• 1964 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1964 Archived 2019-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1964 at Internet Movie Database