The first Cannes film festival in the history (1946) with pics
The Cannes
Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews
new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
Before 1939,
Jean Zay, Minister for Education and Fine Arts, had the desire to implement a
cultural event in France to rival the International Venice Film Festival. It is
finally more than a year after the end of the war in 1946, was born the first
edition of the International Film Festival in Cannes.
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| Jean Zay |
During the
first festival, the jury was made up of one representative per country, with
French historian Georges Huisman as the Jury President. With more emphasis on
creativity than in competitiveness, eighteen nations presented their films.
Eleven of them tied for the first Grand Prix of the International Festival.
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| Grace Moore sings La Marseillaise |
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The festival
schedule included Austrian American director Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend,
Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s Open City, French director René Clement’s
The Battle of the Rails, and British director David Lean’s Brief Encounter. At
the first Cannes, organizers placed more emphasis on creative stimulation
between national productions than on competition. Nine films were honored with
the top award: Grand Prix du Festival.
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| Michele Morgan 1946 |
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