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17th Venice International Film Festival

17th Venice International Film Festival
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
Festival date28 August – 9 September 1956
WebsiteWebsite
Venice Film Festival chronology

The 17th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 9 September 1956.[1]

No Golden Lion was awarded, the international jury was unable to decide the winner, after a tie in the voting between The Burmese Harp and Calle Mayor, the award was declared void for the first (and only) time ever.[2][3]

Jury

Official Sections

Main Competition

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Attack Robert Aldrich United States
The Awakening Suor Letizia Mario Camerini Italy
Big and Small Veliki i mali Vladimir Pogačić Yugoslavia
Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray United States
The Burmese Harp ビルマの竪琴 Kon Ichikawa Japan
Bus Stop Joshua Logan United States
The Captain from Köpenick Der Hauptmann von Köpenick Helmut Käutner West Germany
Empire in the Sun L'impero del sole Enrico Gras Italy
Gervaise René Clément France
The Immortal Garrison Бессмертный гарнизон Zakhar Agranenko, Eduard Tisse Soviet Union
Main Street Calle Mayor Juan Antonio Bardem Spain
The Ogre of Athens Ο Δράκος Nikos Koundouros Greece
The Rocket from Calabuch Calabuch Luis García Berlanga Spain
Street of Shame 赤線地帯 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
Torero! Carlos Velo Mexico
La Traversée de Paris Claude Autant-Lara France

Official Awards

Main Competition

Independent Awards

New Cinema Award

San Giorgio Prize

FIPRESCI Prize

OCIC Award

Pasinetti Award

References

  1. ^ "The 1950s [sic]". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  2. ^ Roos, Fred (Spring 1957). "Venice Film Festival, 1956" (PDF). The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television. 11 (3). University of California Press: 249. doi:10.2307/1209744. JSTOR 1209744. Retrieved April 5, 2020. The report began with a few sentences of praise for each of the 14 films [sic], and then selected the Japanese Harp of Burma and the Spanish Calle Mayor as being particularly outstanding. Since the jury was unable to decide which of these two films was the superior, it had decided not to award a grand prix "St. Mark Golden Lion" this year.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "17. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia". La Biennale di Venezia (in Italian). Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  4. ^ "Juries for the 1950s [sic]". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
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