1954 Cannes Film Festival

The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held from 25 March to 9 April 1954. With Jean Cocteau as president of the jury, the Grand Prix went to the Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa. The festival opened with Le Grand Jeu by Robert Siodmak. This was the last festival with a predominantly French jury.

As the festival was becoming more and more a pole of showbiz attraction, scandals and romances of stars were appearing in the press. In 1954, the Simone Silva affair during the Cannes Festival ended up in the destruction of her career as an actor and her premature death, three years later.

Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1954 competition:

Feature films Short films
 * Jean Cocteau (France) - Jury President
 * Jean Aurenche (France)
 * André Bazin (France)
 * Luis Buñuel (Spain)
 * Henri Calef (France)
 * Guy Desson (MP official) (France)
 * Philippe Erlanger (France)
 * Michel Fourre-Cormeray (France)
 * Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (CNC official) (France)
 * Jacques Ibert (France)
 * Georges Lamousse (Senate official) (France)
 * André Lang (France)
 * Noël-Noël (France)
 * Georges Raguis (union official) (France)
 * Henning Jensen (Denmark)
 * Albert Lamorisse (France)
 * Jean Queval (journalist) (France)
 * Jean Tedesco (France)
 * Jean Vivie (CST official) (France)

Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix:


 * Adventures of the Barber of Seville (Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla) by Ladislao Vajda
 * All Is Possible in Granada (Todo es posible en Granada) by Carlos Blanco and José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
 * As Long as You're Near Me (Solange Du da bist) by Harald Braun
 * Before the Deluge (Avant le déluge) by André Cayatte
 * Beneath the 12-Mile Reef by Robert D. Webb
 * The Boy and the Fog (El Niño y la niebla) by Roberto Gavaldón
 * Bread of Love (Kärlekens bröd) by Arne Mattsson
 * Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) by Carlo Lizzani
 * Circus Fandango (Cirkus Fandango) by Arne Skouen
 * Comedians (Cómicos) by Juan Antonio Bardem
 * Five Boys from Barska Street (Piatka z ulicy Barskiej) by Aleksander Ford
 * Flesh and the Woman (Le Grand Jeu) by Robert Siodmak
 * From Here to Eternity by Fred Zinnemann
 * Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
 * The Great Adventure (Det Stora Ädventyret) by Arne Sucksdorff
 * The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg) by Sergei Yutkevich
 * An Inlet of Muddy Water (Nigorie) by Tadashi Imai
 * The Kidnappers by Philip Leacock
 * Kiskrajcár by Márton Keleti
 * Knave of Hearts by René Clément
 * Knights of the Round Table by Richard Thorpe
 * Komedianti by Vladimír Vlcek
 * The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brücke) by Helmut Käutner
 * Little Boy Lost by George Seaton
 * The Living Desert by Walt Disney and James Algar
 * Love in a Hot Climate (Sangre y luces) by Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay
 * Love Letter (Koibumi) by Kinuyo Tanaka
 * Maddalena by Augusto Genina
 * Man of Africa by Cyril Frankel
 * Marina's Destiny (Sudba Mariny) by Isaak Shmaruk and Viktor Ivchenko
 * The Martyr of Calvary (El Mártir del Calvario) by Miguel Morayta
 * Mayurpankh by Kishore Sahu
 * Memories of a Mexican (Memorias de un Mexicano) by Carmen Toscano
 * The Monster (El Wahsh) by Salah Abu Seif
 * Naked Amazon (Feitiço do Amazonas) by Zygmunt Sulistrowski
 * Neapolitan Carousel (Carosello napoletano) by Ettore Giannini
 * Pamposh by Ezra Mir
 * Si mis campos hablaran by José Bohr
 * Sira` Fi al-Wadi by Youssef Chahine
 * Song of the Sea (O Canto do Mar) by Alberto Cavalcanti
 * Stars of the Russian Ballet (Mastera russkogo baleta) by Gerbert Rappaport
 * Two Acres of Land (Do Bigha Zamin) by Bimal Roy
 * Windfall in Athens (Kyriakatiko xypnima) by Michael Cacoyannis

Short film competition
The following short films competed for the various short film awards:


 * Apollon kai Dafni by Thanassis Meritzis
 * Aptenodytes forsteri (Les Pingouins) by Mario Marret
 * Aquarium by Ágoston Kollányi
 * The Blakes Slept Here by Jacques Bernard Brunius
 * Christophe Plantin, imprimeur des humanistes du XVIeme siècle by Gaston Vermaillen
 * Der dom zu Koeln by Ulrich Kayser
 * El Greco en su obra maestra : El entierro del Conde Orgaz by Juan Serra
 * Er is altijd een tockomst by Kees Stip
 * Exploratieboren by Bert Haanstra
 * Feminine Fashions by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
 * Il fiume della vita by Enrico Castelli Gattinara
 * Folk Dances of India by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
 * Det gjelder livet by Titus Vibe Müller
 * Una goccia d'acqua by Enzo Trovasilli
 * Highlands of Iceland by Magnus Johannsson
 * Hokusai by Hiroshi Teshigahara
 * Jaktflygare by Helge Sahlin
 * Jyske kyst by Søren Melson
 * Kék vércsék erdejében by István Homoki-Nagy
 * Koziołeczek by Lechosław Marszałek
 * Kutna hora by Fr. Lukas
 * Land of Enlightment by Mohan Wadhwani
 * Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne by Johan Jacobsen
 * Lumière by P. Paviot
 * Miniatury kodesku behema by Stanisław Lenartowicz
 * Le mystère de la Licorne by Arcady, Jean-Claude See
 * Nouveaux horizons by Marcel Ichac
 * Nytt land under svillene by Per Opsahl
 * O kohoutkovi a slepičce by Zdenec Miler
 * A Drop Too Much (O sklenicku víc) by Bretislav Pojar
 * L'Ombre de St Michel by Jean Pichonnier, Paul Pichonnier
 * De Opsporing van Aardolie by Bert Haanstra
 * The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Brian Borthwick, John Halas
 * Pik droujby by I. Goutman
 * Plastik im Freien by Adalbert Baltes
 * The Pleasure Garden by James Broughton
 * Polyot na lunu by Vladimir Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg
 * Promenade au Luxembourg by Philippe Schneider
 * Rene Leriche chirurgien de la douleur by René Lucot
 * River of Hope by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
 * Ruban noir by Henry Jacques
 * El solitario de Sayan by Enrico Gras
 * Stare miasto (The Old Town of Warsaw) by Jerzy Bossak
 * Stern von Bethlehem by Wilhelm Döderlein
 * Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom by Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols
 * Uspavana ljepotica by Rudolf Sremec
 * La vie des Chamois by André Bureau, Paul Claudon, P. Dalli, Pierre Levent, André Villard
 * Vieren maar by Herman van der Horst
 * Viragos kalocsa by Vince Lakatos
 * Vita della libellula by Alberto Ancillotto
 * Wild Life Sanctuary by D.D. Reucassel

Official awards
The following films and people received the 1954 awards:
 * Grand Prix: Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
 * International Prize
 * Before the Deluge (Avant le déluge) by André Cayatte
 * Neapolitan Carousel (Carosello napoletano) by Ettore Giannini
 * Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) by Carlo Lizzani
 * Two Acres of Land (Do Bigha Zamin) by Bimal Roy
 * Five Boys from Barska Street (Piatka z ulicy Barskiej) by Aleksander Ford
 * The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brücke) by Helmut Käutner
 * The Living Desert by James Algar
 * The Great Adventure (Det Stora Ädventyret) by Arne Sucksdorff
 * The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg) by Sergei Yutkevich
 * Jury Special Prize: Knave of Hearts by René Clément

Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prize OCIC Award Other awards
 * Before the Deluge (Avant le déluge) by André Cayatte
 * The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brücke) by Helmut Käutner
 * Special Mention
 * André Cayatte and Charles Spaak for Before the Deluge (Avant le déluge)
 * Maria Schell for her acting performance in The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brücke)
 * The camera crew of The Living Desert
 * Aleksander Ford for his direction of Five Boys from Barska Street
 * Arne Sucksdorff for his direction of The Great Adventure (Det Stora Ädventyret)
 * Sergei Yutkevich for his direction of The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg)

Media

 * Institut National de l'Audiovisuel: Opening of the 1954 Festival (Michèle Morgan and Robert Mitchum, commentary in French)
 * INA: Opening of the 1954 Festival (Daniel Gélin and Gina Lollobrigida, commentary in French)