1975 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...
  
  , President, actress
• André Delvaux, director
• Anthony Burgess
  Anthony Burgess
  John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
  
  , writer
• Fernando Rey
  Fernando Rey
  Fernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States...
  
  , actor
• George Roy Hill
  George Roy Hill
  George Roy Hill was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
  
  , director
• Gérard Ducaux-Rupp, producer
• Léa Massari
  Lea Massari
  Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari is an Italian actress.She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but when she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo...
  
  , actress
• Pierre Mazars, journalist
• Pierre Salinger
  Pierre Salinger
  Pierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...
  
  , writer
• Youlia Solntzeva, actress

Feature film competition

• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the American Southwest in search of a better life, along with Alfred Lutter as her son and Kris...
  
  - Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
  
  
• Aloïse
  Aloïse (film)
  Aloïse is a 1975 French drama film directed by Liliane de Kermadec. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Aloïse jeune / Aloïse as a child* Delphine Seyrig - Aloïse adulte / Aloïse as an adult...
  
  - Liliane de Kermadec
  Liliane de Kermadec
  Liliane de Kermadec is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed nine films since 1965.-Filmography:* Le murmure des ruines * La très chère indépendance du Haut Karabagh * La piste du télégraphe...
  
  
• O Amuleto de Ogum
  The Amulet of Ogum
  The Amulet of Ogum is a 1974 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ney Santanna - Gabriel* Anecy Rocha - Eneida, Gabriel's Fiancée* Joffre Soares - Severiano...
  
  - Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• Ce cher Victor
  Cher Victor
  Cher Victor is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Robin Davis. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bernard Blier - Anselme* Jacques Dufilho - Victor Lasalle* Alida Valli - Anne* Jacqueline Doyen - Micheline...
  
  - Robin Davis
  Robin Davis (director)
  Robin Davis is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 13 films between 1975 and 2006.-Filmography:*1979: La Guerre des polices*1982: Le Choc*1983: J'ai épousé une ombre*1985: Cher Victor...
  
  
• Chronique des Années de Braise
  Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  Chronicle of the Years of Fire is a 1975 film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the Algerian War of Independence as seen through the eyes of a peasant.The film won the Palme d'Or prize at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...
  
  by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
  Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
  Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian film director. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Embers. He is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Arabic cinema.- Biography :...
  
  
• Den-en ni shisu
  Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  , and also known as Pastoral Hide and Seek, is a 1974 Japanese drama film directed by Shūji Terayama. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Kantaro Suga - Me* Hiroyuki Takano - Me, as a boy* Yoshio Harada - Arashi...
  
  - Shūji Terayama
  Shuji Terayama
  was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters, he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in...
  
  
• Un divorce heureux
  A Happy Divorce
  A Happy Divorce is a 1975 Danish-French drama film directed by Henning Carlsen. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean Rochefort - Jean-Baptiste Morin* André Dussollier - François* Daniel Ceccaldi - Antoine...
  
  - Henning Carlsen
  Henning Carlsen
  Henning Carlsen is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of Cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger was nominated for the Palme D'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...
  
  
• Dzieje grzechu
  The Story of Sin
  The Story of Sin is a 1975 Polish drama film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Grazyna Dlugolecka - Ewa Pobratynska* Jerzy Zelnik - Lukasz Niepolomski...
  
  - Walerian Borowczyk
  Walerian Borowczyk
  Walerian Borowczyk was a Polish film director. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. His career as a film director was mainly in France.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ignacio
  Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
  Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? is a 1975 Mexican drama film directed by François Reichenbach. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  - François Reichenbach
  François Reichenbach
  François Reichenbach was a French film director, cinematographer producer and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993.-Selected filmography:* America As Seen by a Frenchman...
  
  
• Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a 1974 West German drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog about the legend of Kaspar Hauser. Its original German title is Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle, which means "Every man for himself and God against them all"...
  
  - Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
  
  
• Lenny
  Lenny (film)
  Lenny is a 1974 American biographical film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Julian Barry is based on his play of the same name.-Plot:...
  
  - Bob Fosse
  Bob Fosse
  Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction...
  
  
• Les Ordres - Michel Brault
  Michel Brault
  Michel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...
  
  
• Lotte in Weimar
  Lotte in Weimar (film)
  Lotte in Weimar is a 1974 East German drama film directed by Egon Günther. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the 1939 novel, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns by Nobel prize winning German novelist Thomas Mann.-Cast:...
  
  - Egon Günther
• Man Friday
  Man Friday (film)
  Man Friday is a 1975 British/American film. It is adapted from the 1973 play by Adrian Mitchell based on Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, but reverses the roles, portraying Crusoe as a blunt, stiff Englishman, while the native he calls Man Friday is much more intelligent and empathic...
  
  - Jack Gold
  Jack Gold
  Jack Gold is a British film and television director. He was part of the British Realist Tradition that followed Free Cinema.-Career:...
  
  
• Mariken van Nieumeghen
  Mariken van Nieumeghen
  Mariken van Nieumeghen is a 1974 Dutch drama film directed by Jos Stelling. It is based on the early Dutch book "Die waerachtige ende seer wonderlycke historie van Mariken van Nieumeghen die meer dan seven jaren met den duvel woonde ende verkeerde" , dating 1518...
  
  - Jos Stelling
  Jos Stelling
  Jos Stelling is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He has directed 12 films, and is working on his new film The Girl and Death, in which Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks will play the lead role....
  
  
• Oni srazhalis za rodinu
  They Fought for Their Country
  They Fought for Their Country is a 1975 Soviet war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. The film is the story of a Soviet platoon fighting a rearguard action during the German drive on Stalingrad.-Cast:...
  
  - Sergei Bondarchuk
  Sergei Bondarchuk
  Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...
  
  
• Professione: reporter
  The Passenger (film)
  The Passenger is a film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1975, in which Jack Nicholson stars as a television reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger. The film competed for the "Palme d'Or" award at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:*Jack...
  
  - Michelangelo Antonioni
  Michelangelo Antonioni
  Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Profumo di donna
  Profumo di donna
  Profumo di donna is a Commedia all'italiana film directed by Dino Risi in 1974 based on Il buio e il miele, a story by Giovanni Arpino. Both Risi and the leading actor Vittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards...
  
  - Dino Risi
• Section spéciale
  Section spéciale
  Section spéciale is a 1975 French film, directed by Costa Gavras. It stars Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani, François Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennett and Claude Piéplu...
  
  - Costa Gavras
• Szerelmem, Elektra
  Electra, My Love
  Electra, My Love is a 1974 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. It is known for its extremely long takes, often as long as the camera would allow without stopping because of the film stock finishing.-Cast:* Mari Törőcsik as Elektra*...
  
  - Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...
  
  
• Xia nu
  A Touch of Zen
  A Touch of Zen is a 1971 Taiwanese wuxia film directed by King Hu. The film won significant critical acclaim and became the first Chinese language action film ever to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, claiming the Technical Grand Prize award....
  
  - King Hu
  King Hu
  King Hu was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me , Dragon Gate Inn and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s...
  
  
• Yuppi du
  Yuppi du
  Yuppi du is a 1975 Italian comedy film directed by Adriano Celentano. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Claudia Mori - Adelaide* Charlotte Rampling - Silvia* Gino Santercole - Napoleone* Adriano Celentano - Felice Della Pietà...
  
  - Adriano Celentano
  Adriano Celentano
  Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.-Biography:Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"...
  
  

Films out of competition

• A Csodalatos Mandarin by Miklós Szinetár
• A faból faragott királyfi by Ádám Horváth
• Anna Karenine by Margarita Pilikhina
• Galileo
  Galileo (film)
  Galileo is a 1975 film version of the Bertolt Brecht play The Life of Galileo. The film was produced and released as part of the American Film Theatre, which adapted theatrical works for a subscription-driven cinema series.-Plot:...
  
  by Joseph Losey
  Joseph Losey
  Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
  
  
• Georges Braque ou Le temps différent by Frédéric Rossif
  Frédéric Rossif
  Frédéric Rossif was a French film and television director who specialized primarily on documentaries, frequently using archive footage. Rossif's common themes included wildlife, 20th century history and contemporary artists...
  
  
• India Song
  India Song
  India Song is a 1975 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras. India Song stars Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Carriere, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff and Didier Flamand. The film centres on Anne-Marie , the promiscuous wife of the French Vice-Consul in India, and was based on an...
  
  by Marguerite Duras
  Marguerite Duras
  Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...
  
  
• Je t'aime, tu danses by François Weyergans
  François Weyergans
  François Weyergans is a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France...
  
  
• Moses und Aron
  Moses und Aron (film)
  Moses und Aron, known in English as Moses and Aaron, is a 1973 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet based on the unfinished opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg...
  
  by Jean-Marie Straub
  Jean-Marie Straub
  Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006...
  
  
• The Day of the Locust
  The Day of the Locust (film)
  The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is based on the 1939 novel of the same title by Nathanael West...
  
  by John Schlesinger
  John Schlesinger
  John Richard Schlesinger, CBE was an English film and stage director and actor.-Early life:Schlesinger was born in London into a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Winifred Henrietta and Bernard Edward Schlesinger, a physician...
  
  
• The Maids
  The Maids (film)
  The Maids is a 1974 film that was directed by Christopher Miles. It is based on the play of the same title by the French dramatist Jean Genet. The film stars Glenda Jackson as Solange, Susannah York as Claire, Vivien Merchant as Madame, and Mark Burns as Monsieur...
  
  by Christopher Miles
  Christopher Miles
  Christopher Miles was born in London, England, the eldest of four children to ‘Wren’, a councilor, and John Miles, a consulting engineer, whose family had been in the steel industry for several generations...
  
  
• The Romantic Englishwoman
  The Romantic Englishwoman
  The Romantic Englishwoman is a 1975 British film directed by Joseph Losey. It stars Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, and marks the feature-length screen debut for Kate Nelligan...
  
  by Joseph Losey
  Joseph Losey
  Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
  
  
• Tommy
  Tommy (film)
  Tommy is a 1975 British musical film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album musical Tommy. It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves...
  
  by Ken Russell
  Ken Russell
  Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
  
  
• Trollflojten
  The Magic Flute (1975 film)
  The Magic Flute is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film version of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. It was intended as a television production and was first shown on Swedish television but was followed by a cinema release later that year. The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but was not...
  
  by Ingmar Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman
  Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
  
  

Awards

• Golden Palm: Chronique des Années de Braise
  Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  Chronicle of the Years of Fire is a 1975 film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the Algerian War of Independence as seen through the eyes of a peasant.The film won the Palme d'Or prize at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...
  
  by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
  Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
  Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian film director. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Embers. He is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Arabic cinema.- Biography :...
  
  , Algeria
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a 1974 West German drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog about the legend of Kaspar Hauser. Its original German title is Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle, which means "Every man for himself and God against them all"...
  
  by Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
  
  
• Award for Best Director
  Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....
  
  : Costa Gavras for Section spéciale
  Section spéciale
  Section spéciale is a 1975 French film, directed by Costa Gavras. It stars Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani, François Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennett and Claude Piéplu...
  
  and Michel Brault
  Michel Brault
  Michel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...
  
   for Les Ordres
• Award for Best Actor
  Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
  
  : Vittorio Gassman
  Vittorio Gassman
  Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI , popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director...
  
   for Profumo di donna
  Profumo di donna
  Profumo di donna is a Commedia all'italiana film directed by Dino Risi in 1974 based on Il buio e il miele, a story by Giovanni Arpino. Both Risi and the leading actor Vittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards...
  
  
• Award for Best Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
  
  : Valerie Perrine
  Valerie Perrine
  - Life and career :Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Winifred , a dancer who appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and Kenneth Perrine, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army. Owing to her father's career, Perrine lived in many locations as the family moved to different...
  
   for Lenny
  Lenny (film)
  Lenny is a 1974 American biographical film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Julian Barry is based on his play of the same name.-Plot:...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prix: Xia nu
  A Touch of Zen
  A Touch of Zen is a 1971 Taiwanese wuxia film directed by King Hu. The film won significant critical acclaim and became the first Chinese language action film ever to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, claiming the Technical Grand Prize award....
  
  by King Hu
  King Hu
  King Hu was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me , Dragon Gate Inn and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s...
  
  
• Short Film Palme d'Or
  Short Film Palme d'Or
  The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....
  
  : Lautrec by Geoff Dunbar
• Short Film Special Jury Prize: Daryu tebe zvezdu by Fyodor Khitruk
  Fyodor Khitruk
  Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk is one of the most influential animators and animation directors in Russian animation.-Biography:Khitruk was born in Tver, Russian Empire and came to Moscow to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with...
  
  

External links

• 1975 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1975 at Internet Movie Database
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