1967 Cannes Film Festival - Wikipedia
- ️Thu Apr 27 1967
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 Official poster of the 20th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by René Ferracci.[1] | |
| Opening film | I Killed Rasputin |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Batouk |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: Blowup[2] |
| No. of films | 24 (In Competition)[3] |
| Festival date | 27 April 1967 – 12 May 1967 |
| Website | festival-cannes.com/en |
| Cannes Film Festival | |
The 20th Cannes Film Festival took place from 27 April to 12 May 1967.[4] Italian filmmaker Alessandro Blasetti served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni.[2]
The festival opened with I Killed Rasputin by Robert Hossein, and closed with Batouk by Jean Jacques Manigot.[5][6][7]
- Alessandro Blasetti, Italian filmmaker - Jury President[8]
- Georges Lourau, French producer - Jury Vice-President
- Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet actor and filmmaker
- René Bonnell, French
- Jean-Louis Bory, French journalist and writer
- Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian filmmaker
- Claude Lelouch, French filmmaker
- Shirley MacLaine, American actress
- Vincente Minnelli, American filmmaker
- Georges Neveux, French writer
- Gian Luigi Rondi, Italian writer
- Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese filmmaker
Short Films Competition
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- Mark Turfkhuyer, Belgian journalist - Jury President
- Tahar Cheriaa, Tunisian
- André Coutant, French technician
- Zdravka Koleva, Bulgarian
- Jean Schmidt, French
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accident | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom | |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni | United Kingdom, Italy | |
| Degree of Murder | Mord und Totschlag | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany |
| Elvira Madigan | Bo Widerberg | Sweden | |
| Entranced Earth | Terra em Transe | Glauber Rocha | Brazil |
| Hagbard and Signe | Den røde kappe / Den röda kappan / Rauða skikkjan | Gabriel Axel | Denmark, Sweden, Iceland |
| Hotel for Strangers | Hotel pro cizince | Antonín Máša | Czechoslovakia |
| I Even Met Happy Gypsies | Скупљачи перја | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia |
| L'immorale | Pietro Germi | Italy | |
| Katerina Izmailova | Катерина Измайлова | Mikhail Shapiro | Soviet Union |
| The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre | Alain Jessua | France |
| The Last Meeting | Último encuentro | Antonio Eceiza | Spain |
| My Love, My Love | Mon amour, mon amour | Nadine Trintignant | France |
| Misunderstood | Incompreso | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Monday's Child | La chica del lunes | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina |
| Mouchette | Robert Bresson | France | |
| Pedro Páramo | Carlos Velo | Mexico | |
| Ten Thousand Days | Tízezer nap | Ferenc Kósa | Hungary |
| Three Days and a Child | שלושה ימים וילד | Uri Zohar | Israel |
| Ulysses | Joseph Strick | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Unknown Man of Shandigor | L'Inconnu de Shandigor | Jean-Louis Roy | Switzerland |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo | Elio Petri | Italy |
| The Winds of the Aures | ريح الاوراس | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Algeria |
| You're a Big Boy Now | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batouk (closing film) | Jean Jacques Manigot | France | |
| Closely Watched Trains | Ostre sledované vlaky | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Le Conquérent de l'inutile (A la mémoire de Lionel Terray) | Marcel Ichac | France | |
| I Killed Rasputin (opening film) | J'ai tué Raspoutine | Robert Hossein | France, Italy |
| Privilege | Peter Watkins | United Kingdom | |
| Restauration du Grand Trianon | Pierre Zimmer | France | |
| War and Peace | Война и мир | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union |
Short Films Competition
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The following short films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:[3]
- Crunch-crunch by Carlos Marchiori
- Dada by Greta Deses
- L'Emploi du temps by Bernard Lemoine
- Gloire à Félix Tournachon by André Martin
- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature by John Hubley
- Insitne umenie by Vlado Kubenko
- Jedan plus jedan jeste tri by Branko Ranitovic
- Larghetto by Waclaw Kondek
- Napló by György Kovásznai
- Opus by Don Levy
- Remedios Varo by Jomí García Ascot
- Sky Over Holland by John Fernhout
- La Tana by Luigi Di Gianni
- Toys by Grant Munro
- Versailles by Albert Lamorisse
- Die Widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie by Peter Schamoni
International Critics' Week
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The following feature films were screened for the 6th International Critics' Week (6e Semaine de la Critique):[9]
- The Bell (Kane) by Yukio Aoshima (Japan)
- L'Horizon by Jacques Rouffio (France)
- Jozsef Katis by Wim Verstappen (Netherlands)
- Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T.) by Dusan Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
- The Times That Are (Le Règne du jour) by Pierre Perrault (Canada)
- Rondo by Zvonimir Berkovic (Yugoslavia)
- Trio by Gianfranco Mingozzi (Italy)
- Ukamau by Jorge Sanjinés Aramayo (Bolivia)
- Warrendale by Allan King (Canada)
- Grand Prix International du Festival: Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni[2]
- Grand Prix Spécial du Jury:
- Best Director: Ferenc Kósa for Ten Thousand Days
- Best Screenplay:
- Best Actress: Pia Degermark for Elvira Madigan
- Best Actor: Oded Kotler for Three Days and a Child
- Best First Work: The Winds of the Aures by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Short Films Competition
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- Grand Prix International du Festival: Sky Over Holland by John Fernhout
- Prix spécial du Jury:
- Gloire à Félix Tournachon by André Martin
- Jedan plus jedan jeste tri by Branko Ranitovic
- Short film Technical Prize: Sky Over Holland by John Fernhout
- Special Mention: Versailles by Albert Lamorisse
Commission Supérieure Technique
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- Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention: Hagbard and Signe by Gabriel Axel[2]
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- ^ a b c d e "20ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Official Selection 1967: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "1967 - Accidents de parcours (Road accidents)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ A.H. Weiler, The Flight Plan of 'Peter Pan' , New York Times. pp. 11. 27 November February 1966. Retrieved on 10 December 2013.
- ^ "Opening of the 1967 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival". ina.fr. Retrieved 25 May 2017. Translation: On the occasion of the coming projection of "Batouk", which will close the 20th Festival International du Film de Cannes...
- ^ "Juries 1967: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "6e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1967". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1967". imdb.com. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- INA: Opening of the 1967 festival (commentary in French)
- 1967 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
- Official website Retrospective 1967 Archived 2019-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1967 at Internet Movie Database