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Cannes Film Festival: 1956

Golden Palm

Date:23 April - 10 May
Jury:Maurice Lehmann (France) (president); Arletty (France); Louise de Vilmorin (France); Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France); Henri Jeanson (France); Domenico Meccoli (Italy); Otto Preminger (USA); James Quinn (IV) (UK); Roger Regent (France); María Romero (Chile); Sergei Vasilyev (I) (Soviet Union); Francis Bolen (Belgium) (short films); Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia) (short films); Henri Fabiani (France) (short films); Paul Grimault (France) (short films); Jean Perdrix (France) (short films)

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  Other In-Competition Films:
 
  • Afacerea Protar (1956) - Haralambie Boros
  • Cien (1956) - Jerzy Kawalerowicz
  • Dalibor (1956) - Václav Krska
  • El último perro (1956) - Lucas Demare
  • Gli innamorati (1955) - Mauro Bolognini
  • Hanka (1955) - Slavko Vorkapich
  • I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Daniel Mann (I)
  • Ikimono no kiroku (1955) - Akira Kurosawa
  • Il ferroviere (1956) - Pietro Germi
  • Il tetto (1956) - Vittorio De Sica
  • Körhinta (1956) - Zoltán Fábri
  • La escondida (1956) - Roberto Gavaldón
  • Le mystère Picasso (1956) - Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Maboroshi no uma (1955) - Koji Shima
  • Marie-Antoinette reine de France (1956) - Jean Delannoy
  • Mat (1955) - Mark Donskoy
  • Meeuwen sterven in de haven (1955) - Roland Verhavert; Ivo Michiels; Rik Kuypers
  • Mozart (1955) - Karl Hartl
  • Otello (1955) - Sergei Yutkevich
  • Pather Panchali (1955) - Satyajit Ray
  • Pedagogicheskaya poema (1955) - Aleksei Maslyukov; Mechislava Mayevskaya
  • Seido no Kirisuto (1956) - Minoru Shibuya
  • Seven Years in Tibet (1956) - Hans Nieter
  • Shabab emraa (1956) - Salah Abouseif
  • Shevgyachya Shenga (1955) - Shantaram Athavale
  • Sob o Céu da Bahia (1956) - Ernesto Remani
  • Sommarnattens leende (1955) - Ingmar Bergman
  • Talpa (1956) - Alfredo B. Crevenna
  • Tarde de toros (1956) - Ladislao Vajda
  • The Harder They Fall (1956) - Mark Robson (I)
  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) - Nunnally Johnson
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Alfred Hitchcock (I)
  • The Man Who Never Was (1956) - Ronald Neame
  • To koritsi me ta mavra (1956) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
  • Tochka parva (1956) - Boyan Danovski
  • Toubib el affia (1957) - Henry Jacques
  • Walk Into Paradise (1956) - Lee Robinson (III)
  • Yield to the Night (1956) - J. Lee Thompson

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