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1st Moscow International Film Festival
The 1st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 3 to 17 August 1959. The Grand Prix was awarded to the Soviet film '' Destiny of a Man'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. Jury * Sergei Gerasimov (USSR - President of the Jury) * Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia) * Emma Väänänen (Finland) * Thorold Dickinson (Great Britain) * Christian-Jaque (France) * Kálmán Nádasdy (Hungary) * Hans Rodenberg (East Germany) * Bimal Roy (India) * Henri Storck (Belgium) * Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland) * Kiyohiko Ushihara (Japan) * Zhang Junxiang (China) * Sergei Yutkevich (USSR) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Grand Prix: '' Destiny of a Man'' by Sergei Bondarchuk * Golden Medals: ** '' Aren't We Wonderful?'' by Kurt Hoffmann ** '' The Day Shall Dawn'' by A. J. Kardar ** '' Escape from the Shadows'' by Jiří Sequens * Silver Medals: ** Actors: Wieńczysław Gliński, Bronisław Pawlik and Aleksander Sewruk for '' The Eagle'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974). Life and career He began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. Later he helped found the ''Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS)'', which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the 1920s and began directing in 1928. His films often were cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics. He won Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director twice: for ''Othello'' in 1956 and for ''Lenin in Poland'' in 1966. Of his later films ''Lenin in Paris'' is among the best known. In 1959, 1961 and 1967 respectively, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Won't Keep A Sailor Down
''That Won't Keep a Sailor Down'' (german: Das haut einen Seemann doch nicht um) is a 1958 German-Danish comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Karlheinz Böhm, Antje Geerk and Georg Thomalla. It was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Plot After returning to Copenhagen, a sailor discovers that his wife has died a few days before shortly after giving birth. He now tries to bring up the child, with the help of a young woman he has met. Cast *Karlheinz Böhm as Peter Hille * Antje Geerk as Christine Hansen * Georg Thomalla as Valdemar V. Olsen *Annie Rosar as Frau Nielsen * Hans Nielsen as Pastor Paulsen * Irene Mann as Paula * Willy Maertens as Herr Nielsen *Gerd Frickhöffer as Hermann *Eddi Arent Gebhardt Georg Arendt (5 May 1925 – 28 May 2013) was a German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1956 and 2002. He was born in Danzig, Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Kassila
Matti Kassila (12 January 1924 – 13 December 2018) was a Finnish film director who achieved fame as one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for the series of four Inspector Palmu movies, based on the character created by Mika Waltari. During his long career, he won seven Jussi Awards, including a concrete Jussi for lifetime achievement, and received numerous other commendations. His 1959 film '' Punainen viiva'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. He was also one of the screenwriters for the 1968 film ''Here, Beneath the North Star'', directed by Edvin Laine. Films directed by Kassila * ''Isäntä soittaa hanuria'' (1949) * ''Professori Masa'' (1950) * ''Maija löytää sävelen'' (1950) * ''Lakeuksien lukko'' (1951) * '' Radio tekee murron'' (1951) * ''Radio tulee hulluksi'' (1952) * '' Varsovan laulu'' (1953) * ''Tyttö kuunsillalta'' (1953) * ''Sininen viikko'' (1954) * ''Hilmanpäivät'' (1954) * ''Is� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Line (1959 Film)
''Red Line'' ( fi, Punainen viiva) is a 1959 Finnish drama film directed by Matti Kassila. It is based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Ilmari Kianto. The film was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival; however, the reception at the film festival was poor due to the exaggerated character of a social democratic agitator (played by Jussi Jurkka) and weak quality of the film's subtitles.Punainen viiva ' - National Audiovisual Institute, ''Finna.fi'' (in Finnish) In 1959, the film won five in the following categories: Best Scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as '' Rome, Open City'' (1945), ''Paisan'' (1946), and ''Germany, Year Zero'' (1948). Early life Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra ( née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm, was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. His mother was of partial French descent, from immigrants who had arrived in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy. Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome, the "Barberini", a theatre where movies could be projected, granting his son an unlimited free pass; th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matri Bhumi
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Matri may refer to: *Matri (mountain), in the Himalayas *Matri (biblical figure), ancestor of Saul, the first King of Israel *Alessandro Matri (born 19 August 1984), Italian footballer *MATRI could mean monoamine transporter reuptake inhibitor Reuptake is the reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by a neurotransmitter transporter located along the plasma membrane of an axon terminal (i.e., the pre-synaptic neuron at a synapse) or glial cell after it has performed its function of transmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stevens
George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.Obituary '' Variety'', March 12, 1975, page 79. Films he produced were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture six times while he had five nominations as Best Director, winning twice. Among his most notable films are '' Swing Time'' (1936), '' Gunga Din'' (1939) and the five movies for which he was nominated for Best Director: '' The More the Merrier'' (1943); '' A Place in the Sun'' (1951), for which he won the Best Director Oscar; ''Shane'' (1953), '' Giant'' (1956), for which he won the Best Director Oscar, and ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959). Biography Film career Stevens was born on December 18, 1904, in Oakland, California, the son of Landers Stevens and Georgie Cooper, both stage actors. Drama critic Ashton Stevens and film director James W. Horne were his uncles. He also had two brothers, Jack, a cinematographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959 Film)
''The Diary of Anne Frank'' is a 1959 biographical drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play of the same name, which was in turn based on the posthumously published diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during World War II. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast. All Frank's writings to her diary were addressed as "Dear Kitty". It was published after the end of the war by her father, Otto Frank (played in the film by Joseph Schildkraut, who was also Jewish). All of his family members had been killed by the Nazis. The film was shot on a sound stage duplicate of the factory in Los Angeles, while exteriors were filmed at the actual building in Amsterdam. The film was positively received by critics, currently holding a 80% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Fahdi
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Whom The Sun Rises
For or FOR may refer to: English language *For, a preposition *For, a complementizer *For, a grammatical conjunction Science and technology * Fornax, a constellation * for loop, a programming language statement * Frame of reference, in physics * Field of regard, in optoelectronics * Forced outage rate, in reliability engineering Other uses * Fellowship of Reconciliation, a number of religious nonviolent organizations * Pinto Martins International Airport (IATA airport code), an airport in Brazil * Revolutionary Workers Ferment (''Fomento Obrero Revolucionario''), a small left communist international * Fast oil recovery Fast oil recovery (FOR) is a term comprising various innovative systems which can be built into a new ship or integrated into an old ship, thus facilitating efficient and safe removal of an oil spill from a wrecked vessel. The drastic consequences ..., systems to remove an oil spill from a wrecked ship * Field of Research, a component of the Australian and Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márton Keleti
Márton Keleti (27 April 1905 – 20 June 1973) was a Hungarian film director. He directed 50 films between 1937 and 1973. His 1959 film '' Yesterday'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''A Tanítónő'' (1945) * ''Mickey Magnate'' (1949) * '' Janika'' (1949) * ''Különös házasság'' (1951) * ''Kiskrajcár'' (1953) * '' Young Hearts'' (1953) * ''Two Confessions'' (1957) * '' Yesterday'' (1959) * ''The Corporal and Others ''The Corporal and the Others'' ( hu, A tizedes meg a többiek) is a 1965 Hungarian comedy film directed by Márton Keleti. The film was chosen to be part of the Budapest Twelve, a list of Hungarian films considered the best in 1968. Cast * Imre ...'' (1965) * '' Franz Liszt. Dreams of love'' (1970) References External links * 1905 births 1973 deaths Hungarian film directors {{Hungary-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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