4th Venice International Film Festival

4th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Festival date	10 – 31 August 1936
Website	Website

The 4th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 10 and 31 August 1936. This year saw an international jury nominated for the first time.^[1][2]

Jury

• Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, Italian - Jury President^[3]
• Ottavio Croze, Italian
• Giacomo Paolucci de'Calboli, Italian
• Luigi Freddi, Italian
• Mario Gromo, Italian
• Neville Kearney, British
• Oswald Lehnich, German
• Antonio Maraini, Italian
• Karl Meltzer, German
• Filippo Sacchi, Italian
• Ryszard Ordynski, Polish
• Louis Villani, Hungarian
• Émile Vuillermoz, French

In-Competition films

• La Kermesse héroïque by Jacques Feyder
• Der Kaiser von Kalifornien by Luis Trenker
• The Ghost Goes West by René Clair
• The Great Ziegfeld by Robert Z. Leonard
• It Was Me by Arthur Bárdos
• Lo squadrone bianco by Augusto Genina
• Mayerling by Anatole Litvak
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town by Frank Capra
• Show Boat by James Whale
• The Story of Louis Pasteur by William Dieterle
• Veille d'armes by Marcel L'Herbier

Awards

• Best Foreign Film: Der Kaiser von Kalifornien by Luis Trenker
• Best Italian Film: Lo squadrone bianco by Augusto Genina
• Volpi Cup:
  • Best Actor: Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • Best Actress: Annabella for Veille d'armes
• Special Recommendation:
  • Ave Maria by Johannes Riemann
  • Children's Corner by Marcel L'Herbier, Emile Vuillermoz
  • Mary of Scotland by John Ford
  • Marysa by Josef Rovenský
  • Metropolitan Nocturne by Leigh Jason
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town by Frank Capra
  • Opernring by Carmine Gallone
  • Polesie by Maksymilian Emmer, Jerzy Maliniak
  • Pompei by Giorgio Ferroni
  • Scrooge by Henry Edwards
  • The Mine by J. B. Holmes
  • The Robber Symphony by Friedrich Feher
  • Verräter by Karl Ritter
• Animated Film: Who Killed Cock Robin? by Walt Disney
• Color Film: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Henry Hathaway
• Best Director: La Kermesse héroïque by Jacques Feyder
• Best Cinematography: Tudor Rose by Mutz Greenbaum

References

1. "Venice Film Festival: The 30s". labiennale.org. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
2. "The 1930s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
3. "Juries for the 1930s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 1936 Awards on IMDb