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The 8th
Cannes Film Festival was held from 26 April to 10 May
1955 .
[4] The
Golden Palm went to the US film
Marty by
Delbert Mann .
[5] The festival opened with
Du rififi chez les hommes by
Jules Dassin
[6] and closed with
Carmen Jones by
Otto Preminger .
Until the 1954 Festival, the whimsical way various prizes were being awarded had drawn much criticism. In answer to this, from 1955 onwards, the Jury was composed of foreign celebrities from the film industry.
[7] In 1955, the first
Palme d'Or was awarded, as the highest prize of the Festival.
Jury
Marcel Pagnol, Jury President
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1955 competition:
[8]
Feature films
Short films
Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
[3]
Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
[3]
Italia K2 by Marcello Balbi
Les trésors de la Mer Rouge by Michel Rocca
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the
Short Film Palme d'Or :
[3]
2'21"6 Butterfly Stroke: Dolphin-Kick by T. Mijata
A esperanca e' eterna by Marcos Margulies
Aggtelek by Ágoston Kollányi
Arte popular Portuguesa by
João Mendes
Black on White by
John Read
Blinkity Blank by
Norman McLaren
Bow Bells by
Anthony Simmons
Bronsalder by Lars Krantz
Bush Doctor by
Jean Palardy
Cyrk by Włodzimierz Haupe
De sable et de feu by Jean Jabely
Den standhaftige Tinnsoldat by
Ivo Caprino
Der Schatz des Abendlandes by Ernst Stephan Niessner, Edmund Von Hammer
Dobreho vojak svejk by
Jiri Trnka
Dock by
Emile Degelin
Guardians of the Soil by David Millin
Host by Thor Arnijot Udvang, Carsten Munch
Images préhistoriques by Arcady & Thomas L. Rowe
In cantec si dans by
Ion Bostan
Isole di fuoco by
Vittorio De Seta
Jakten over sporene by
Erik Borge
L'homme dans la lumière by René Lucot
La ciudad blanca by Waldo Cerruto
La grande pèche by Henri Fabiani
Le conte de ma vie by Jørgen Roos
Les jardiniers d'Allah by Michel Clarence
Niedzielny poranek by
Andrzej Munk
Nos forets by Auguste Kern
Op de spitsen by Rudi Hornecker
Opici cisar by Jan Lacko
Island of Sakhalin (Ostrov Sakhalin ) by Vassili Katanian,
Eldar Ryazanov
Pierre Romain desfossez by Gérard De Boe
Pulsschlag der Zeit by René Boeniger
Symphony of Life by T.A. Abraham
The Golden River by Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy
The Story of Light by Joop Geesink
Tickets Please by
Emil Nofal
Trois coquillages de Tunisie by Roger Mauge
When Magoo Flew by
Pete Burness
Zolotaya antilopa by
Lev Atamanov
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1955 awards:
[2]
Short films
Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prize
[9]
OCIC Award
[10]
References
Media
External links
Awards Awards given by independent entities Parallel events By year