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19th Venice International Film Festival
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Italian film festival in 1958
19th Venice International Film Festival Venice, Italy 1932 Golden Lion: Rickshaw Man 24 August – 7 September 1958 Website Venice Film Festival 18th 20th
The 19th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 7 September 1958.http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/?page_id=496&lang=en The y 1950′s October 8, 2013
No OCIC Award was given this year due to the "unusual immorality" of the films.Variety Japanese 'Rickshaw' Top Venice Winner September 10, 1958 5 https://archive.org/details/variety212-1958-09/page/n78/mode/1up?view=theater May 25, 2023
Jury
Jean Grémillon, French filmmaker - Jury Presidenthttp://www.carnivalofvenice.com/?page_id=521&lang=en Juries for the y 1950′s October 8, 2013
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:19. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema https://asac.labiennale.org/attivita/cinema/annali?anno=1958 labiennale.org 27 July 2025
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 IndiaAngel 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 HungaryThe 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
Golden Lion: Rickshaw Man by Hiroshi Inagaki
Special Jury Prize:
The Lovers by Louis Malle
La sfida by Francesco Rosi
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Alec Guinness for The Horse's Mouth
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Sophia Loren for The Black Orchid
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
FIPRESCI Prize
Vlcí jáma by Jiří Weiss
Pasinetti Award
Rosemary by Rolf Thiele
Parallel Sections:
Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
Weddings and Babies by Morris Engel
Italian Cinema Clubs Award
Weddings and Babies by Morris Engel
References
External links
http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/
Venice Film Festival 1958 Awards on IMDb
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