The 9th Cannes International Film Festival in 1956 took place from April 23 to May 10, 1956.
competition
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Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
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Afacerea Protar
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Haralambie Boros
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Romania
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Bloody arena
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Ladislao Vajda
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Spain
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The roof
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Vittorio De Sica
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Italy , France
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Dalibor
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Václav Krska
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Czechoslovakia
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Hanka
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Slavko Vorkapich
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Yugoslavia
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carousel
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Zoltán Fábri
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Hungary
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The smile of a summer night
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Ingmar Bergman
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Sweden
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Ulla Jacobsson , Eva Dahlbeck , Harriet Andersson
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A life in fear
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Akira Kurosawa
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Japan
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Toshirō Mifune
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A queen's romance novel
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Jean Delannoy
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France , Italy
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Michèle Morgan , Richard Todd
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Maboroshi no uma
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Koji Shima
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Japan
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The girl in black
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Michael Cacoyannis
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Greece
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The man who knew too much
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Alfred Hitchcock
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United States
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James Stewart , Doris Day
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The man in the gray flannel
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Nunnally Johnson
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United States
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Gregory Peck , Jennifer Jones , Fredric March
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Meeuwen sterven in de haven
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Rik Kuypers , Ivo Michiels
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Belgium
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Give me your hand, my life
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Karl Hartl
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Austria
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Oskar Werner , Johanna Matz , Nadja Tiller
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The mother
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Mark Donskoi
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Soviet Union
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Othello
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Sergei Yutkevich
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Soviet Union
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Sergei Bondarchuk
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Pather Panchali
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Satyajit Ray
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India
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picasso
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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France
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Documentary with Pablo Picasso
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The rebel bride
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Roberto Gavaldón
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Mexico
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María Félix
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The red signal
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Pietro Germi
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Italy
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Pietro Germi
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The shadow
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz
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Poland
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Dirty laurel
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Mark Robson
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United States
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Humphrey Bogart , Rod Steiger , Jan Sterling
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The silent world *
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Louis Malle , Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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France
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documentary
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Seido no Kirisuto
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Minoru Shibuya
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Japan
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Shabab emraa
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Salah Abouseif
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Egypt
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Shevgyachya Shenga
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Shantaram Athavale
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India
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Balakram , Master Chhotu , Sumati Gupte
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Seven years in Tibet
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Hans Nieter
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Great Britain
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Documentary with Heinrich Harrer
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Sob o Céu da Bahia
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Ernesto Remani
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Brazil
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Talpa
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Alfredo B. Crevenna
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Mexico
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Tochka parva
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Bojan Danowski
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Bulgaria
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Toubib el affia
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Henry Jacques
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Morocco
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El Último perro
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Lucas Demare
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Argentina
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Embrace me, night
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J. Lee Thompson
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Great Britain
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Diana Dors , Yvonne Mitchell
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And tomorrow I'll cry
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Daniel Mann
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United States
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Susan Hayward , Richard Conte , Jo Van Fleet
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The lovers
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Mauro Bolognini
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Italy , France
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Nino Manfredi
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Walk into Paradise
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Lee Robinson
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Australia , France
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The way to life
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Aleksei Maslyukov , Mechislava Mayevskaya
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Soviet Union
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* = Golden palm
International jury
This year's jury president was director Maurice Lehmann . He headed the jury: Arletty (actress), Domenico Meccoli (journalist), Henri Jeanson (writer), Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (film producer), James Quinn (film producer), Louise de Vilmorin (writer), Maria Romero (journalist), Otto Preminger (director), Roger Regent (journalist) and Sergei Wassiljew (director).
Award winners
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Golden Palm : The silent world
- Special jury award: Picasso
- Best director: Sergei Yutkewitsch
- Best Actress: Susan Hayward
- Special prize (“Poetic Humor”): Ingmar Bergman
- Special Prize (“Human Document”): Satyajit Ray
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