# 1958 Cannes Film Festival

The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 18 May 1958. The Palme d'Or went to The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov.

## Jury

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:
Feature films
* Marcel Achard (France) - Jury President
* Tomiko Asabuki (Japan)
* Bernard Buffet (France)
* Jean De Baroncelli (critic) (France)
* Helmut Käutner (West Germany)
* Dudley Leslie (UK)
* Madeleine Robinson (France)
* Ladislao Vajda (Hungary)
* Charles Vidor (USA)
* Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
* Cesare Zavattini (Italy)
Short films
* Norman McLaren (Canada)
* Jean Mitry (France)
* Krishna Riboud (India)
* Edmond Séchan (France)
* Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)

## Feature film competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
* Brink of Life (Nära livet) by Ingmar Bergman
* The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks
* La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel
* Ciulinii Bărăganului by Louis Daquin
* The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
* Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann
* The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff
* Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers
* Goha by Jacques Baratier
* Iron Flower (Vasvirág) by János Herskó
* Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin
* The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt
* A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi
* A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis
* Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
* Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen
* Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith
* Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray
* Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici
* Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka
* Snow Country (Yukiguni) by Shirō Toyoda
* The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann
* Suburban Romance (Zizkovská romance) by Zbyněk Brynych
* Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
* Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
* Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini

## Out of competition

The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:
* Gigi by Vincente Minnelli

## Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* A.B.C. by John Fernhout
* Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
* Dubrovacki pasteli by Marijan Vajda
* Egy masodperc tortenete by Ágoston Kollányi
* Gloria dei Medici by Antonio Petrucci
* Goya, una vida apasionada by José María Ochoa
* Grafica cloveku by France Kosmac
* Horyû-Ji by Susumu Hani
* La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel
* La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
* Les mystères d'une goutte d'eau by Ann H. Matzner Dr.
* Log Drive by Raymond Garceau
* Mandu by Neil Gokhale
* Nagrodzone uczucia by Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica
* Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiří Brdečka
* Ô saisons ô châteaux by Agnès Varda
* Perameren hylkeenpyytajat by Ulf Backstrom
* Sapte Arte by Ion Popescu-Gopo
* Sintra by João Mendes
* The Story of a Roof by Jamie Uys
* Trees And Jamaica Daddy by Lew Keller
* Voici le pays d'Israel by Jean Lehérissey
* Y gorakh salianskykh by Leonid Belokurov, Y. Przyjemski
* Zimniy prazdnik by Mikhail Slutsky

## Awards
### Official awards

The following films and people received the 1958 awards:
* Palme d'Or: The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
* Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life (Nära livet)
* Best Screenplay: Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands (Giovani mariti)
* Best Actress: Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life (Nära livet)
* Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer
* Special Mention:Tatiana Samoylova for Letyat zhuravli
* Jury Prize:
** Goha by Jacques Baratier
** Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
* Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
Short films
* Short Film Palme d'Or:
** La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel and Jean Suyeux
** La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
* Special Prize: Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich & Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiri Brnecka

### Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prize
* Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem