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1969 Cannes Film Festival CFF69poster.jpg Official poster of the 22nd Cannes Film Festivalhttp://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/posters.html 1969 The Festival Poster festival-cannes.com dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131225023139/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/posters.html 25 December 2013 dmy 26 (In Competition) Sweet Charity Cannes, France Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:If.... 1969 05 08 y – 1969 05 23 y 1946 festival-cannes.com/en Cannes Film Festival 1968 1970
The 22nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 8 to 23 May 1969. Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was awarded to If.... by Lindsay Anderson.22ème Festival International du Film - Cannes http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1969.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000316/http://www.cinema-francais.fr/cannes/cannes_1969.htm 4 March 2016 4 June 2017 cinema-francais.fr fr
At this edition a new non-competitive section called Directors' Fortnight was created, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.http://www.cannes-fest.com/an1969.htm 1969 - Année polémique (Year of controversy) cannes-fest.com fr 25 May 2017
The festival opened with Sweet Charity by Bob Fosse.https://books.google.com/books?id=kwq69QWWFPYC&q=1969+Cannes+Film+Festival+sweet+charity+opening+film&pg=PA234 1969 Cannes Film Festival sweet charity opening film 9780786492619 25 May 2017 Holston Kim R. 13 December 2012 McFarland
Jury
Main Competition
Luchino Visconti, Italian filmmaker - Jury PresidentJuries 1969: Long film http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/juryLongFilm.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100025/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/juryLongFilm.html 4 March 2016 festival-cannes.fr dmy
Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet author
Marie Bell, French actress and stage director
Jaroslav Boček, Czechoslovak
Veljko Bulajić, Yugoslav filmmaker
Stanley Donen, American filmmaker and choreographer
Jerzy Glucksman, Swedish student
Robert Kanters, French film critic
Sam Spiegel, American producer
Short Films Competition
Charles Duvanel, Swiss
Mihnea Gheorghiu, Romanian
Claude Soulé, French CST official
Official selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/allSelections.html Official Selection 1969: All the Selection festival-cannes.fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131226221940/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/allSelections.html 26 December 2013 dmy
English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryÅdalen 31Bo WiderbergSwedenAll My Good CountrymenVšichni dobří rodáciVojtěch JasnýCzechoslovakiaAntonio das Mortes O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo GuerreiroGlauber RochaBrazilThe Appointment Sidney LumetUnited StatesCalcuttaLouis MalleFranceDillinger Is DeadDillinger è mortoMarco FerreriItalyDon't Let the Angels Fall George KaczenderCanadaEasy RiderDennis HopperUnited StatesEnd of a PriestFarářův konecEvald SchormCzechoslovakiaFlashbackRaffaele AndreassiItalyThe Great LoveLe Grand AmourPierre ÉtaixFranceHunting FliesPolowanie na muchyAndrzej WajdaPolandHymn to a Tired Man日本の青春Masaki KobayashiJapanIf.... Lindsay AndersonUnited KingdomIsadoraKarel ReiszUnited Kingdom, FranceIt Rains in My VillageBiće skoro propast svetaAleksandar PetrovićYugoslaviaLove CircleMetti, una sera a cenaGiuseppe Patroni GriffiItalyMachine Gun McCainGli intoccabiliGiuliano MontaldoMan on HorsebackMichael Kohlhaas – der RebellVolker SchlöndorffWest GermanyThe Man Who Thought LifeManden der tænkte tingJens RavnDenmarkMatzorמצורGilberto TofanoIsraelMy Night at Maud'sMa nuit chez MaudÉric RohmerFranceThe Prime of Miss Jean BrodieRonald NeameUnited KingdomSlavesHerbert BibermanUnited StatesSpain AgainEspaña otra vezJaime CaminoSpainZCosta-GavrasFrance, Algeria
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryAndrei RublevАндрей РублёвAndrei TarkovskySoviet UnionArthur Rubinstein – The Love of LifeL'Amour de la vie – Arthur RubinsteinFrançois ReichenbachFranceThe Deserter and the NomadsZbehovia a pútniciJuraj JakubiskoYugoslaviaFrozen FlashesDie gefrorenen BlitzeJános VeicziEast GermanySweet Charity (opening film)Bob FosseUnited StatesThat Cold Day in the ParkRobert AltmanUnited States, Canada
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:
30em
Le Ballet des Jacungos by Jean Manzon
Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
Goldframe by Raoul Servais
L'Homme aux chats by Henri Glaeser
Moc osudu by Jiří Brdečka
Niebieska kula by Mirosław Kijowicz
La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude Carrière
Red Arrows by John Edwards
Short Seven by Jonne Severijn
Su sambene non est aba by Luigi Gonzo & Manfredo Manfredi
Toccata by Herman van der Horst
El Triunfo de la muerte by José María Gutiérrez
Das Verräterische Herz by Paul Anczykowski
World of Man by Albert Fischer & Michael Collyer
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 8th International Critics' Week (8e Semaine de la Critique):https://archives.semainedelacritique.com/films/1969/1969_selection.php 8e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1969 archives.semainedelacritique.com 20 June 2017
30em
Cabascabo by Oumarou Ganda (Niger)
Charles mort ou vif by Alain Tanner (Switzerland)
Sziget a szárazföldön (The Lady from Constantinople) by Judit Elek (Hungary)
The Hour of the Furnaces (La Hora de los hornos) by Fernando Solanas (Argentina)
King, Murray by David Hoffman (United States)
More by Barbet Schroeder (Luxembourg)
My Girlfriend's Wedding by Jim McBride (United States)
Pagine chiuse by Gianni da Campo (Italy)
La Rosière de Pessac by Jean Eustache (France)
La Voie by Mohamed Slimane Riad (Algeria)
In the Year of the Pig by Emile de Antonio (United States)
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern) by Peter Fleischmann (West Germany)
Paris n’existe pas by Robert Benayoun (France)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1969 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/fr/edition/1969 Quinzaine 1969 quinzaine-realisateurs.com 2 July 2017 1 July 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170701152751/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/qz_an/1969/ live
30em
Acéphale by Patrick Deval (France)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYaPsz6VDM&t=21s - YouTube YouTube
Adam 2 by Jan Lenica (West Germany)
Ballade pour un chien by René Allio, Gérard Vergez (France)
Barravento by Glauber Rocha (Brazil)
Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) by Michel Brault (Canada)
Brandy in the Wilderness by Stanton Kaye (United States)
O Bravo Guerreiro by Gustavo Dahl (Brazil)
Brazil Year 2000 (Brasil Ano 2000) by Walter Lima Jr (Brazil)
Calcutta (doc.) by Louis Malle (France)
Capitu by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil)
Capricci by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
Christopher's Movie Matinée by Mort Ransen (Canada)
Le Cinématographe by Michel Baulez (France)
De mère en fille (doc.) by Anne-Claire Poirier (Canada)
Death by Hanging (Kōshikei) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Shinjuku Dorobō Nikki) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Drôle de jeu by Pierre Kast (France)
Duet for Cannibals by Susan Sontag (Sweden)
The Ernie Game by Don Owen (Canada)
L'été by Marcel Hanoun (France)
Face To Face (Cara a cara) by Júlio Bressane (Brazil)
La primera carga al machete by Manuel Octavio Gomez (Cuba)
Five Girls Around the Neck (Pět holek na krku) by Evald Schorm (Czechoslovakia)
Fuoco! by Gian Vittorio Baldi (Italy)
A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce) by Robert Bresson (France)
Les Gommes by Francis Deroisy (Belgium)
Head by Bob Rafelson (United States)
Het compromis by Philo Bregstein (Netherlands)
The Illiac Passion by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
Image, Flesh and Voice by Ed Emshwiller (United States)
Invasión by Hugo Santiago (Argentina)
Jardim de guerra by Neville dAlmeida (Brazil)
Le Joujou Chéri by Gabriel Axel (Denmark)
Kid Sentiment by Jacques Godbout (Canada)
Le lit de la Vierge by Philippe Garrel (France)
Lucía by Humberto Solas (Cuba)
Mai 68, la belle ouvrage (doc.) by Jean-Luc Magneron (France)
Marie by Marta Meszaros (Hungary)
Marketa Lazarová by František Vláčil (Czechoslovakia)
A Matrimony (Eine Ehe) by Hans Rolf Strobel, Heinrich Tichawsky (West Germany)
Money, Money by José Varela (France)
The Most Beautiful Age by Jaroslav Papoušek (Czechoslovakia)
Mumbo-Jumbo by Jean-Luc Magneron (France)
Nocturne 29 by Pere Portabella (Spain)
Nous n’irons plus au bois by Georges Dumoulin (France)
Our Lady of the Turks (Nostra Signora dei Turchi) by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
Partner by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy)
Paul by Diourka Medveczky (France)
Paulina Is Leaving (Paulina s’en va) by André Téchiné (France)
La Poupée Rouge by Francis Leroi (France)
The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (Le viol d'une jeune fille douce) by Gilles Carle (Canada)
Rhodesia Countdown by Michael Raeburn (Southern Rhodesia)
Scratch Harry by Alex Matter (United States)
Sirocco (Sirokkó) by Miklos Jancso (Hungary)
The Smugglers (Les contrebandières) by Luc Moullet (France)
Soliloquy by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
Straight to the Heart (Jusqu'au cœur) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
Terry Withmore For an Example by Bill Brodie (Sweden)
Three by James Salter (United States)
A Time of Roses (Ruusujen aika) by Risto Jarva (Finland)
The Trip by Roger Corman (United States)
Tu imagines Robinson by Jean-Daniel Pollet (France)
Vie provisoire by Mauricio Gomez Leite (Brazil)
Les vieilles lunes by David Fahri (Switzerland)
Vive la mort by Francis Reusser (Switzerland)
Le Voyage by Fernando Cony Campos (Brazil)
Wheel of Ashes by Peter Goldman (United States)
Yvon, Yvonne by Claude Champion (Switzerland)
Short films
30em
5/7/35 by Jean Mazeas (France)
Adrien s’éloigne by Claude Guillemot (France)
Arrabal by Jacques Poitrenaud (France)
Athènes, ville sourire by Lambros Liaropoulos (Greece)
Black Movie by Adrian (filmmaker) (France)
Chinese Chekers by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
Einer Mädchenhaut by Klaus Schönherr (France)
Erin Ereinté by Jean-Paul Aubert (France)
Flash-Parc by Frank Cassenti (France)
Fuses by Carolee Schneemann (United States)
Galaxie by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
Gedanken beim Befühlen by Klaus Schönherr (France)
Hemingway by Fausto Canel (Cuba)
Jeanne et la moto by Diourka Medveczky (France)
Journal de séjour a Marseille by C. Lindenmeyer, Gérard Levy-Clerc (France)
La page dévoilée by Jim Hodgetts et Mike Marshall (France)
La poursuite impitoyable by J.J. Schakmundes, R. Guillon (France)
Le mariage de Clovis by Daniel Duval (France)
Le Sursitaire by Serge Huet (France)
Les Stabiles by Christian Lara (France)
Libi by Otto Muehl (France)
Marie et le Curé by Diourka Medveczky (France)
Miss Paris et le Majordome by Georges Dumoulin (France)
Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin by Pascal Aubier (France)
N.O.T.H.I.N.G. by Paul Sharits (France)
Naissant by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
On the Every Day of the Eyes of Death by Robert Beavers (France)
Paris des Négritudes by Jean Schmidt (France)
Permanence by Busioc Ionesco (Romania)
Que s’est-il passé en Mai? by Jean-Pierre Savignac (France)
Rohfilm by G. Hein (France)
S. Macht am Sonntag-Nachmittag keinen Film by Dieter Meier (France)
Scenes from Under Childhood by Stan Brakhage (France)
Souvenir de la nuit du 4 by Patrice Gauthier, Henry Lange (France)
Speak by John Latham (United Kingdom)
The Mysteries by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
Twice a Man by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
Untebrochene Flugverbindungen by Dieter Meier (France)
Versucht mit Synth. Ton by Kurt Kren (France)
Winged Dialogue by Robert Beavers (France)
Official Awards
thumb|180px|Luchino Visconti, Jury President
Main Competition
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: If.... by Lindsay Anderson
Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Ådalen 31 by Bo Widerberg
Best Director:
Glauber Rocha for Antonio das Mortes
Vojtěch Jasný for All My Good Countrymen
Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora
Best Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant for Z
Jury Prize: Z by Costa Gavras (Unanimously)
Best First Work: Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper
Short Films Competition
Grand Prix International du Festival: Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
Prix spécial du Jury: La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude Carrière
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovskyhttps://www.fipresci.org/awards/1969 FIPRESCI Awards 1969 fipresci.org 2 July 2017
Commission Supérieure Technique
Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention: All My Good Countrymen by Vojtěch Jasný
Short film - Special Mention:
Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
Toccata by Herman van der Horst
References
Media
INA: Opening of the 1969 Festival (commentary in French)
INA: Closing ceremony Cannes 1969 (commentary in French)
External links
1969 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1969 https://web.archive.org/web/20190113182336/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/1969/selection/in-competition-feature-films 2019-01-13
Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1969 at Internet Movie Database
Cannes Film Festival, 1969
Cannes Film Festival, 1969
Category:Cannes Film Festival by year