The 12th Cannes International Film Festival in 1959 took place from April 30 to May 15, 1959.
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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Araya
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Margot Benacerraf
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Venezuela , France
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documentary
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The semi-delicate
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Rolf Thiele
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Austria
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Romy Schneider , Carlos Thompson , Magda Schneider
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Heroes
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Franz Peter Wirth
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Germany
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OW Fischer , Liselotte Pulver , Ellen Schwiers
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Hiroshima, mon amour
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Alain Resnais
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France , Japan
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Emmanuelle Riva , Eiji Okada
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Court martial
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Kurt Meisel
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Germany
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Karlheinz Böhm , Christian Wolff , Klaus Kammer
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Lajwanti
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Narendra Suri
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India
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Nargis , Balraj Sahni
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Matomeno iliovassilema
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Andreas Labrinos
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Greece
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Middle of the night
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Delbert man
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United States
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Fredric March , Kim Novak
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Nazarin
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Luis Buñuel
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Mexico
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Francisco Rabal
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Orfeu Negro *
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Marcel Camus
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Brazil , France , Italy
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Rapsódia Portuguesa
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João Mendes
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Portugal
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documentary
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Guilty?
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Zoltán Fábri
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Hungary
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nostalgia
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Vojtěch Jasný
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Czechoslovakia
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Shirasagi
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Teinosuke Kinugasa
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Japan
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They kissed and they hit him
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François Truffaut
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France
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Jean-Pierre Léaud
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A midsummer night's dream
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Jirí Trnka
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Czechoslovakia
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Cartoon
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Stars
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Konrad Wolf
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GDR , Bulgaria
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Shining sky - shining happiness
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Michael Powell
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United Kingdom , Spain
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Anthony Steel , Ludmilla Tchérina
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Storm over Mexico
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Ismael Rodríguez
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Mexico
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María Félix , Dolores del Río
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Anne Frank's diary
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George Stevens
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United States
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Millie Perkins , Joseph Schildkraut , Shelley Winters
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Tang fu yu sheng nu
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Tien Shen
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China
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Clumsy makes a career
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Mario Soldati
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Italy , France , Spain
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Renato Rascel
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... and the music blows along
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Bert Haanstra
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Netherlands
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The father's house
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Lev Kulijanov
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Soviet Union
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The seducer
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Göran Gentele
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Sweden
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Gunnar Bjornstrand
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Vlak bez voznog reda
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Veljko Bulajic
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Yugoslavia
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The way up
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Jack Clayton
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Great Britain
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Simone Signoret , Laurence Harvey
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Zafra
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Lucas Demare
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Argentina
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The compulsion to evil
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Richard Fleischer
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United States
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Orson Welles , Dean Stockwell , EG Marshall
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* = Golden palm
International jury
As in the previous year, the jury president was the writer Marcel Achard . He headed the following jury: Antoni Bohdziewicz , Carlo Ponti , Carlos Cuenca , Gene Kelly , Julien Duvivier , Max Favalelli , Micheline Presle , Michael Cacoyannis , Pierre Daninos and Sergei Wassiljew .
Award winners
- Golden palm : Orfeu Negro
- Special Jury Prize: Stars
- Prix International: Nazarin
- Best director: François Truffaut
- Best actress: Simone Signoret in The Way Up
- Best Actor: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, and Orson Welles for The Force to Evil
- Best comedy: Clumsy makes a career
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