The 8th Cannes International Film Festival in 1955 took place from April 26 to May 10, 1955.
competition
The following films were shown in the competition this year:
Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
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Biraj Bahu
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Bimal Roy
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India
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Boot Polish
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Prakash Arora
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India
|
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Carmen Jones
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Otto Preminger
|
United States
|
Dorothy Dandridge , Harry Belafonte
|
Det burner i natt!
|
Arne Skouen
|
Norway
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Le dossier noir
|
André Cayatte
|
France , Italy
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Lea Padovani , Jean-Pierre Grenier , Bernard Blier
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The end of an affair
|
Edward Dmytryk
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United States
|
Deborah Kerr , Van Johnson , John Mills
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Un extraño en la escalera
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Tulio Demicheli
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Mexico , Cuba
|
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The heroes of the Shipka Pass
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Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Wassiljew
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Soviet Union , Bulgaria
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The gold of Naples
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Vittorio De Sica
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Italy
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Silvana Mangano , Sophia Loren , Eduardo De Filippo
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A big family
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Iossif Cheific
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Soviet Union
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Pavel Kadochnikov
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The secret of the Marcellino
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Ladislao Vajda
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Spain , Italy
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Hayat ou tolls
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Kamal El Sheikh
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Egypt
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Height 24 does not answer
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Thorold Dickinson
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Israel
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The dog heads
|
Martin Frič
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Czechoslovakia
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Jedda
|
Charles Chauvel
|
Australia
|
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Beyond Eden
|
Elia Kazan
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United States
|
James Dean , Julie Harris , Raymond Massey
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Liliomfi
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Károly Makk
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Hungary
|
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Ludwig II: splendor and end of a king
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Helmut Käutner
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Germany
|
OW Fischer , Ruth Leuwerik , Marianne Koch
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A country girl
|
George Seaton
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United States
|
Bing Crosby , Grace Kelly , William Holden
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Marty *
|
Delbert man
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United States
|
Ernest Borgnine
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The mosquito
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Walter Reisch
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Germany
|
Hilde Krahl , Margot Hielscher , Gustav Knuth
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Onna no koyomi
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Seiji Hisamatsu
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Japan
|
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Raíces
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Benito Alazraki
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Mexico
|
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Rififi
|
Jules Dassin
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France
|
Jean Servais , Carl Möhner
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The last dance of Romeo and Juliet
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Leo Arnstam
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Soviet Union
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Galina Ulanova
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Samba Fantastico
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Jean Manzon , René Persin
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Brazil
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documentary
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The Taira samurai clan
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
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Japan
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Il Segno di Venere
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Dino Risi
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Italy
|
Sophia Loren , Franca Valeri , Vittorio De Sica
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City in fear
|
John Sturges
|
United States
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Spencer Tracy , Robert Ryan
|
Stella
|
Michael Cacoyannis
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Greece
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Melina Mercouri
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The lost continent
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Enrico Gras , Giorgio Moser
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Italy
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documentary
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Life is full of miracles
|
Carol Reed
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Great Britain
|
Celia Johnson , Diana Dors
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* = Golden palm
International jury
The jury president of this year's festival was the French writer and director Marcel Pagnol . He headed the following jury: Anatole Litvak (director), Isa Miranda (actress), Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (film producer), Jean Nery (film critic), Juan Antonio Bardem (director), Leonard Mosley (journalist), Leopold Lindtberg (director) , Marcel Achard (writer) and Sergei Jutkewitsch (director)
Award winners
In 1955 the Golden Palm was awarded for the first time :
-
Golden Palm : Marty by Delbert Mann
- Special Jury Prize: The Lost Continent
- Best director: Sergej Wassiljew and Jules Dassin
- Best Actor: Spencer Tracy in the city in fear and Boris Andreyev , Alexei Batalov , Boris Bitjukow , Nikolai Gritsenko , Pawel Kadotschnikow , Boris Kokowkin , Sergei Kurilow , Sergei Lukyanov , Vadim Medvedev and Nikolai Sergeyev for a large family
- Best actress: Ija Arepina , Jelena Dobronrawowa , Vera Kuznetsova , Larissa Kronberg , Klara Lutschko and Jekaterina Sawinowa in A Big Family
- Best drama in motion picture: Beyond Eden
- Best lyrical film: Romeo and Juliet
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