The 19th annual
Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 7 September 1958.
Jury
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Jean Grémillon
Jean Grémillon (; 3 October 1901 – 25 November 1959)Note that, despite attempts at correction, thIMDb entry on the directorlists his date of birth erroneously as 4 March 1898. The correct date is given in his standard biography, by Geneviève S ...
(France) (head of jury)
* Carlos Fernández Cuenca (Spain)
*
Piero Gadda Conti (Italy)
*
Alberto Lattuada (Italy)
* Hidemi Ina (Japan)
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Friedrich Luft
Friedrich Luft (24 August 1911 – 24 December 1990) was a German feuilletonist and theater critic.
Life
Born in Friedenau, Luft was the son of a German student councilor and a Scottish mother. His older brother was the German-American ...
(Germany)
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Sergei Vasilyev
Sergei Dmitrievich Vasilyev (russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Васи́льев; 4 November 1900, Moscow – 16 December 1959, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor. From 1928 to 1943 togethe ...
(Soviet Union)
Films in competition
Awards
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Golden Lion:
**''
Rickshaw Man
, also released as ''Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man'' or ''The Rikisha-Man'', is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It is a remake of his own 1943 film. In the 1943 version Tsumasaburo Bando played the role of Muhōmatsu. In Oct ...
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Hiroshi Inagaki
was a Japanese filmmaker best remembered for the Academy Award-winning '' Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto'', which was released in 1954.
Career
Born in Tokyo as the son of a shinpa actor, Inagaki appeared on stage in his childhood before joining t ...
)
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Special Jury Prize:
**''
The Lovers'' (
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down," Malle's filmogr ...
)
**''
La sfida
''La sfida'' ("the challenge") is a 1958 Italian film by Francesco Rosi. It stars José Suárez as a gang leader who challenges a local Camorra boss for supremacy. It won the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is based on the real-l ...
'' (
Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film '' The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...
)
*
Volpi Cup
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
:
** Best Actor -
Alec Guinness - (''
The Horse's Mouth
''The Horse's Mouth'' is a 1944 novel by Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary, the third in his ''First Trilogy'', whose first two books are ''Herself Surprised'' (1941) and ''To Be A Pilgrim'' (1942). ''The Horse's Mouth'' follows the adventures of ...
'')
** Best Actress -
Sophia Loren - (''
The Black Orchid'')
*New Cinema Award
**Best Film - ''Vlcí jáma'' (
Jiří Weiss)
**Best Actress -
Jeanne Moreau - (''
The Lovers'')
*San Giorgio Prize
**''
La sfida
''La sfida'' ("the challenge") is a 1958 Italian film by Francesco Rosi. It stars José Suárez as a gang leader who challenges a local Camorra boss for supremacy. It won the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is based on the real-l ...
'' (
Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film '' The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...
)
*FIPRESCI Prize
**''Vlcí jáma'' (
Jiří Weiss)
*Pasinetti Award
**''
Rosemary
''Salvia rosmarinus'' (), commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. Until 2017, it was known by the scientific name ''Rosmar ...
'' (
Rolf Thiele)
**Parallel Sections - ''
Wild Strawberries'' (
Ingmar Bergman) & ''
Weddings and Babies'' (
Morris Engel
Morris Engel (April 8, 1918 – March 5, 2005) was an American photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker best known for making the first good-quality, internationally-recognized American film "independent" of Hollywood studios, '' Little Fug ...
)
*Italian Cinema Clubs Award
**''
Weddings and Babies'' (
Morris Engel
Morris Engel (April 8, 1918 – March 5, 2005) was an American photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker best known for making the first good-quality, internationally-recognized American film "independent" of Hollywood studios, '' Little Fug ...
)
References
External links
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Venice Film Festival 1958 Awardson IMDb
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