19th Venice International Film Festival
Italian film festival in 1958
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The 19th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 7 September 1958.[1]
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Rickshaw Man |
| Festival date | 24 August – 7 September 1958 |
| Website | Website |
No OCIC Award was given this year due to the "unusual immorality" of the films.[2]
Jury
- Jean Grémillon, French filmmaker - Jury President[3]
- Carlos Fernández Cuenca, Spanish
- Piero Gadda Conti, Italian film critic
- Hidemi Ina, Japanese
- Alberto Lattuada, Italian filmmaker
- Friedrich Luft, German theatre critic
- Sergei Vasilyev, Soviet filmmaker
Official Sections
The following films were selected to be screened:[4]
Main Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| At Midnight | Éjfélkor | György Révész | Hungary |
| The Ballad of Narayama | 楢山節考 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| The Black Orchid | Martin Ritt | United States | |
| Eighth Day of the Week | Ósmy dzien tygodnia | Aleksander Ford | Poland |
| God's Little Acre | Anthony Mann | United States | |
| The Horse's Mouth | Ronald Neame | United Kingdom | |
| In Case of Adversity | En cas de malheur | Claude Autant-Lara | France |
| The Lovers | Les amants | Louis Malle | |
| Night Light | Nattens ljus | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | Sweden |
| One Life | Une vie | Alexandre Astruc | France |
| Otar's Widow | Otaraant qvrivi | Mikheil Chiaureli | Soviet Union |
| Rickshaw Man | 無法松の一生 | Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| Rosemary | Das Mädchen Rosemarie | Rolf Thiele | West Germany |
| La sfida | Francesco Rosi | Italy | |
| The Wolf Trap | Vlcí jáma | Jiří Weiss | Czechoslovakia |
Informativa
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ajantrik | Ritwik Ghatak | India | |
| Angel in a Taxi | Ballerina e Buon Dio | Antonio Leonviola | Italy |
| Le Beau Serge | Claude Chabrol | France | |
| Behind a Long Wall | Detrás de un largo muro | Lucas Demare | Argentina |
| Big Deal on Madonna Street | I soliti ignoti | Mario Monicelli | Italy |
| Big and Small | Veliki i mali | Vladimir Pogacic | Yugoslavia |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Roger Coggio | France | |
| Brink of Life | Nära livet | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Bugles of Fear | Los clarines del miedo | Antonio Fernández-Román | Spain |
| Bundfald | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, Robert Saaskin | Denmark | |
| The Communist | Коммунист | Yuli Raizman | Soviet Union |
| Crni Biseri | Toma Janic | Yugoslavia | |
| The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer | United States | |
| The Glass Tower | Der gläserne Turm | Harald Braun | West Germany |
| At Midnight | Éjfélkor | György Révész | Hungary |
| The Kidnapper | El secuestrador | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina |
| Eroica | Andrzej Munk | Poland | |
| Giants and Toys | 巨人と玩具 | Yasuzô Masumura | Japan |
| Un giorno in Europa | Emilio Marsili | Italy | |
| The Goddess | John Cromwell | United States | |
| The House Under the Rocks | Ház a sziklák alatt | Károly Makk, György Hintsch | Hungary |
| The Idiot | Идиот | Ivan Pyryev | Soviet Union |
| The Island of Silence | Το νησί της σιωπής | Lila Kourkoulakou | Greece |
| Italia in Patagonia | Guido Guerrasio | Italy | |
| Little Cannon | Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano | Wolfgang Staudte | Italy, Germany |
| Orders to Kill | Anthony Asquith | United Kingdom | |
| Spanish Carousel | Carosello spagnolo | Gian Rocco, Salvatore Rosso, Pino Serpi | Italia |
| St. Louis Blues | Allen Reisner | United States | |
| Weddings and Babies | Morris Engel | United States | |
| Wild Strawberries | Smultronstället | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
Official Awards
Independent Awards
New Cinema Award
- Best Film: Vlcí jáma by Jiří Weiss
- Best Actress: Jeanne Moreau for The Lovers
San Giorgio Prize
- La sfida by Francesco Rosi[2]
FIPRESCI Prize
- Vlcí jáma by Jiří Weiss
Pasinetti Award
- Rosemary by Rolf Thiele[2]
- Parallel Sections:
- Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
- Weddings and Babies by Morris Engel
