1952 Cannes Film Festival

1952 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 5th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Piva.[1]
Opening filmAn American in Paris
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsGrand Prize of the Festival
(Two Cents Worth of Hope
and Othello)[2]
No. of films35 (In Competition)[3]
1 (Out of Competition)
51 (Short Film)
Festival date23 April 1952 (1952-04-23) – 10 May 1952 (1952-05-10)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 5th Cannes Film Festival was held from 23 April to 10 May 1952. As in the previous three festivals, the entire jury of this festival was made up of French persons, with Maurice Genevoix as the Jury President. [4] The Grand Prix of the Festival went to the Two Cents Worth of Hope by Renato Castellani and Othello by Orson Welles.[5] The festival opened with An American in Paris by Vincente Minnelli.

Jury

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

Feature film competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix:[3]

Out of competition

The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:[3]

Short film competition

  • Les ailes de Ariel by Gaetano De Maria
  • Animated Genesis by Peter Foldes, Joan Foldes
  • Aperçus Sud Africain N° 5 - Afrique Préhistorique by Errol Hinds
  • Apollon Musageta by Irène Dodall
  • L'Art Sacre Missionnaire by Gentil Marques
  • Aux frontières Yougoslaves by Djordie Vukotic
  • Bambini by Francesco Maselli
  • Cairo by Massimo Dallamano
  • Les charmes des détails dans les tableaux des maîtres d'autrefois by Dr. Hans Curlis
  • Le cordonnier et le chapelier by John Halas
  • Dans les royaumes de la mer by Giovanni Roccardi
  • Démonstration en matière de perception by Garett I. Johnson
  • Les deux mousquetaires by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
  • Diagnostiquer et guérir by Ernest Bingen
  • Djerba l'île biblique by Philippe Este
  • El Dorado by John Alderson (filmmaker)
  • Et la noce dansait by Yehoshua Bertonov
  • Indian Village (Indisk by) by Arne Sucksdorff
  • Le flottage du bois by Lee Prater, Dick Mosher
  • La fugue de Mahmoud by Roger Leenhardt
  • Les gens du nord by René Lucot
  • La gloire verte by M. Ahmed
  • Le grand Boudha by Noburo Ofuji
  • La grande île au cœur des Saintes Eaux by Monique Muntcho, J.K. Raymond-Millet
  • La grande passion by Alphonse Stummer
  • Groenland : Vingt mille lieux sur les glaces by Marcel Ichac, Jean-Jacques Languepin
  • L'homme dans la tour by Bernard Devlin, Jean Palardy
  • Inside Newfoundland (Terre neuve) by Sydney Newman
  • T Schot is te boord! by Herman van der Horst
  • Les joies rustiques by V.R. Sarma
  • Le jour de l'independance by Victor Vicas
  • Le jour promis by S.I. Shweig
  • Maskerage by Max De Haas
  • Masques et visages de James Ensor by Paul Haesaerts
  • Moines de l'ordre de la Merci by Christian Anwander
  • Paysans de l'Aures by Philippe Este
  • La peinture de Boldini by Gian Luigi Rondi
  • Quarante ans d'évolution Marocaine - présence Française au Maroc by Serge Debecque
  • Rythmes de Rotterdam by Ytzen Brusse
  • Six mille ans de civilisation by Ahmed Korshid
  • Story of Steel by Jagat Murari
  • Strasbourg européenne by Ernest Bingen
  • Panta Rhei by Bert Haanstra
  • Union infernale by Ulrich Kayser
  • Victor Hugo by Roger Leenhardt & Yvonne Gerber
  • La vie des fresques by Zoran Markus
  • Vieux temples, vieilles statues by Sôya Mizuki

Awards

Maurice Genevoix, Jury President
Renato Castellani, Grand Prix winner
Orson Welles, Grand Prix winner

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1952 awards:[2] Feature Films

Short films

Independent awards

OCIC Award[7]

References

  1. ^ "Posters 1952". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Awards 1952: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Official Selection 1952: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ^ "1952 - Viva Cannes!". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  5. ^ "5ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Juries 1952: All the Juries". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1952". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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