1966 Cannes Film Festival
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The 19th Cannes Film Festival took place from 5 to 20 May 1966. Italian actress Sophia Loren served as jury president for the main competition.
Official poster of the 19th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Rene Ferracci.[1] | |
| Opening film | Modesty Blaise |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Pharaoh |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Grand Prix: The Birds, the Bees and the Italians A Man and a Woman[2] |
| No. of films | 25 (In Competition)[3] |
| Festival date | 5 May 1966 – 20 May 1966 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was jointly awarded to The Birds, the Bees and the Italians by Pietro Germi and A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch.[2]
To honour the festival's 20th anniversary, a special prize was given to Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles.[4]
The festival opened with Modesty Blaise by Joseph Losey, and closed with Pharaoh by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.[5]
Juries
Main Competition
- Sophia Loren, Italian actress - Jury President[2][6]
- Marcel Achard, French writer
- Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer and musician
- Tetsurō Furukaki, Japanese writer and diplomat
- Maurice Genevoix, French writer
- Jean Giono, French writer
- Maurice Lehmann, French actor
- Richard Lester, British filmmaker
- Denis Marion, Belgian journalist
- André Maurois, French writer
- Marcel Pagnol, French writer and filmmaker
- Yuli Raizman, Soviet filmmaker
- Armand Salacrou, French writer
- Peter Ustinov, Biritsh actor and filmmaker
Short Films Competition
- Charles Duvanel (Switzerland)
- Charles Ford (France) (author)
- Marcel Ichac (France)
- Jean Vivie (France) (CST official)
- Bo Widerberg (Sweden)
Official Selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfie | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom | |
| The Ashes | Popioly | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| The Birds, the Bees and the Italians | Signore & Signori | Pietro Germi | Italy, France |
| Chimes at Midnight | Campanadas a medianoche | Orson Welles | Spain, France, Switzerland |
| Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | United Kingdom, Italy, United States | |
| For Love and Gold | L'armata Brancaleone | Mario Monicelli | Italy |
| The Hawks and the Sparrows | Uccellacci e uccellini | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| Hello, That's Me! | Բարև, ես եմ | Frunze Dovlatyan | Soviet Union |
| The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga | A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga | Roberto Santos | Brazil |
| Hunger | Svält | Henning Carlsen | Denmark, Norway, Sweden |
| It | Es | Ulrich Schamoni | West Germany |
| Lenin in Poland | Ленин в Польше | Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union |
| Mademoiselle | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, France | |
| A Man and a Woman | Un homme et une femme | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Modesty Blaise (opening film) | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom | |
| Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Karel Reisz | ||
| The Nun | La Religieuse | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Ön | Alf Sjöberg | Sweden | |
| Pharaoh (closing film) | Faraon | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
| The Pipes | Dýmky | Vojtěch Jasný | Czechoslovakia |
| Răscoala | Mircea Mureșan | Romania | |
| The Round-Up | Szegénylegények | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| Seconds | John Frankenheimer | United States | |
| With the East Wind | Con el viento solano | Mario Camus | Spain |
| Young Törless | Der junge Törless | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany, France |
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Grand Prix:[3]
- Alberto Giacometti by Ernst Scheidegger and Peter Munger
- Bruegel et la folie des hommes - dulle griet by Jean Cleinge
- Le Chant du monde de Jean Lurcat by Pierre Biro and Victoria Mercanton
- Cislice by Pavel Prochazka
- The Dot and the Line by Chuck Jones
- The Drag by Carlos Marchiori
- Équivoque 1900 by Monique Lepeuve
- De Gewonde by Theo Van Haren Noman
- Miejsce by Edward Sturlis
- Muzikalno prase by Zlatko Grgic
- Nô by Eiji Murayama
- Reflections on Love by Joe Massot
- Les Rendez-vous de l'été by Jacques Ertaud and Raymond Zumstein
- Skaterdater by Noel Black
- L'Urlo by Camillo Bazzoni
Parallel section
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 5th International Critics' Week (5e Semaine de la Critique):[7]
- Black Girl (La Noire de...) by Ousmane Sembène (France, Senegal)
- Bloko by Ado Kyrou (Greece)
- Children's Sicknesses (Gyerekbetegségek) by Ferenc Kardos, János Rózsa (Hungary)
- Du courage pour chaque jour by Evald Schorm (Czechoslovakia)
- O desafio by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil)
- Fata morgana by Vicente Aranda (Spain)
- Man Is Not a Bird (Čovek nije tica) by Dusan Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
- Nicht versöhnt by Jean-Marie Straub (West Germany)
- Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus by Jean Eustache (France)
- Winter Kept Us Warm by David Secter (Canada)
Official Awards
Main Competition
- Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:[2]
- Prix spécial du Jury: Alfie by Lewis Gilbert
- Best Director: Sergei Yutkevich for Lenin in Poland
- Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment
- Best Actor: Per Oscarsson for Hunger
- Best First Work: Răscoala by Mircea Mureșan
- 20th Anniversary Prize: Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles
- Special Mention: Totò, for his acting performance in The Hawks and the Sparrows
Short Films Competition
- Short Film Gran Prix: Skaterdater by Noel Black
- Technical Grand Prize: Skaterdater by Noel Black
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
- Young Törless by Volker Schlöndorff[2][8]
- Special Mention: Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles