# 1973 Cannes Film Festival

The 26th Cannes Film Festival took place from 10 to 25 May 1973. Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was jointly awarded to American filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg for Scarecrow and British filmmaker Alan Bridges for The Hireling.
During this edition two new non-competitive sections were added: Étude et documents and Perspectives du Cinéma Français (which was started by the French Film Directors' Society and ran until 1991).
This edition was notorious for the controversy around Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain screening due to the film's depiction of extreme violence. While British documentary Swastika by Philippe Mora caused disturbance among the audience by showing Adolf Hitler's daily and social life.
The festival opened with Godspell by David Greene, and closed with Lady Sings the Blues by Sidney J. Furie.

## Jury
### Main Competition

* Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress - Jury President
* Jean Delannoy, French actor and filmmaker
* Lawrence Durrell, British writer
* Rodolfo Echeverría, Mexican
* Bolesław Michałek, Polish film critic
* François Nourissier, French journalist and writer
* Leo Pestelli, Italian journalist
* Sydney Pollack, American filmmaker
* Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet author

### Short Films Competition

* Robert Enrico, French filmmaker - Jury President
* Samuel Lachize, French film critic
* Alexandre Marin

## Official Selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ana and the Wolves | Ana y los lobos | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| Belle | Belle | André Delvaux | Belgium, France |
| The Death of a Lumberjack | La Mort d'un bûcheron | Gilles Carle | Canada |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Newman | United States |
| Electra Glide in Blue | Electra Glide in Blue | James William Guercio | United States |
| Le Far West | Le Far West | Jacques Brel | Belgium, France |
| Godspell (opening film) | Godspell (opening film) | David Greene | United States |
| La Grande Bouffe | La Grande Bouffe | Marco Ferreri | Italy, France |
| The Hireling | The Hireling | Alan Bridges | United Kingdom |
| Hospitals: The White Mafia | Bisturi, la mafia bianca | Luigi Zampa | Italy |
| The Hourglass Sanatorium | Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą | Wojciech Has | Poland |
| The Invitation | L'Invitation | Claude Goretta | Switzerland |
| Jeremy | Jeremy | Arthur Barron | United States |
| Love and Anarchy | Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza... | Lina Wertmüller | Italy, France |
| The Mother and the Whore | La maman et la putain | Jean Eustache | France |
| Monologue | Монолог | Ilya Averbakh | Soviet Union |
| O Lucky Man! | O Lucky Man! | Lindsay Anderson | United Kingdom |
| One Hamlet Less | Un Amleto di meno | Carmelo Bene | Italy |
| La otra imagen | La otra imagen | Antoni Ribas | Spain |
| Petőfi '73 | Petőfi '73 | Ferenc Kardos | Hungary |
| Scarecrow | Scarecrow | Jerry Schatzberg | United States |
| The Vows | A Promessa | António de Macedo | Portugal |
| We Want the Colonels | Vogliamo i colonnelli | Mario Monicelli | Italy |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
* Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) directed by Ingmar Bergman
* Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine) directed by François Truffaut
* A Doll's House directed by Joseph Losey
* Future Shock directed by Alex Grasshoff
* The Holy Mountain directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
* Lady Sings the Blues directed by Sidney J. Furie
* Lo Païs directed by Gérard Guérin
* Olivier Messiaen et les Oiseaux directed by Michel Fano, Denise Tual
* Picasso, Peintre Du Siècle 1900-1973 directed by Lauro Venturi
* Story of a Love Story (L'Impossible Objet) directed by John Frankenheimer
* Swastika directed by Philippe Mora
* Visions of Eight directed by Miloš Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Kon Ichikawa, John Schlesinger, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar
* Wattstax directed by Mel Stuart
* We Can't Go Home Again directed by Nicholas Ray

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Az 1812-es év by Sándor Reisenbüchler
* Balablok by Břetislav Pojar
* Langage du geste by Kamal El Sheikh
* La Ligne de sceaux by Jean-Paul Torok
* Skagen 1972 by Claus Weeke
* Space Boy by Renate Druks
* La Tête by Emile Bourget

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 12th International Critics' Week (12e Semaine de la Critique):
* Le Charbonnier by Mohamed Bouamari (Algeria)
* The Water Was So Clear (Gaki zoshi) by Yoichi Takabayashi (Japan)
* Ganja & Hess by Bill Gunn (United States)
* Kashima Paradise by Yann Le Masson, Bénie Deswarte (France)
* Enough Praying (Ya no basta con rezar) by Aldo Francia (Chile)
* Vivre ensemble by Anna Karina (France)
* Non ho tempo by Ansano Giannarelli (Italy)
* Nunta de piatră by Mircea Veroiu, Dan Pita (Romania)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1973 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) by Werner Herzog (West Germany)
* The Sparrow (Al Ousfour) by Youssef Chahine (Egypt)
* All Nudity Shall Be Punished (Toda Nudez Sera Castigada) by Arnaldo Jabor (Brazil)
* Black Holiday (La villeggiatura) by Marco Leto (Italy)
* La città del sole by Gianni Amelio (Italy)
* Coup d'Etat (Kaigenrei) by Yoshishige Yoshida (Japan)
* Days of '36 (Meres tou '36) by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
* Desaster by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
* Drustvena Igra by Srdjan Karanovic (Yugoslavia)
* El Cambio by Alfredo Joskowicz (Mexico)
* Farlige Kys by Henrik Stangerup (Denmark)
* Hannibal by Xavier Koller (Switzerland)
* History Lessons (Geschichtsunterricht) by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet (West Germany)
* Lovely Swine (Bel ordure) by Jean Marboeuf (France)
* Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política by Helvio Soto (Chile)
* Payday by Daryl Duke (United States)
* Photography (Fotografia) by Pal Zolnay (Hungary)
* Quem é Beta? by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil)
* Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand (Canada)
* Some Call It Loving by James B. Harris (United States)
* The Sun Rises Once a Day (Słońce wschodzi raz na dzień) by Henryk Kluba (Poland)
* Touki Bouki by Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
* A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel) by Claude Weisz (France)
* La vita in gioco by Gianfranco Mingozzi (Italy)
* Wedding in White by William Fruet (Canada)
* Zwartziek by Jacob Bijl (Netherlands)
    Short films
* Ein Leben by Herbert Schramm (West Germany)
* El hombre que va a misa by Bernardo Borenholtz (Argentina)
* Ermitage by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
* Fil a fil by Christian Paureilhe (France)
* Grey City by Farshid Meshgali (Iran)
* Introduction a la musique d'accompagnement by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet (West Germany)
* L'audition by Jean-François Dion (France)
* La version originelle by Paul Dopff (France)
* Le lapin chasseur by Thomas Lehestre (France)
* Le soldat et les trois sœurs by Pascal Aubier (France)
* Le travail du comédien by Atahualpa Lichy (France)
* Le ventriloque by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
* Moc by Vlatko Gilic (Yugoslavia)
* Pourquoi by Jean-Denis Berenbaum (France)
* Rendez-vous romantique by Michka Gorki (France)
* Simplexes by Claude Huhardeaux (France)
* Take Off by Gunvor Nelson (United States)
* Zastave by Zoran Jovanovic (Yugoslavia)

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
** The Hireling by Alan Bridges
** Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg
* Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: The Mother and the Whore by Jean Eustache
* Best Actress: Joanne Woodward for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
* Best Actor: Giancarlo Giannini for Love and Anarchy
* Jury Prize:
** The Hourglass Sanatorium by Wojciech Has
** The Invitation by Claude Goretta
* Special Award: Fantastic Planet by René Laloux
* Best First Work: Jeremy by Arthur Barron

### Short Films Competition

* Grand Prix International du Festival: Balablok by Břetislav Pojar
* Prix spécial du Jury: Az 1812-es év by Sándor Reisenbüchler

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* La Grande Bouffe by Marco Ferreri
* The Mother and the Whore by Jean Eustache

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Cries and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman

### OCIC Award

* Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg