Festival de Cannes: Official Selection 1946
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- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsGino BechiAnnette BachCarlo NinchiAfter an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. He takes advantage of his trip to visit Venice. On his way to the Doge's City, he meets a beautiful, mysterious lady who immediately captivates him. Once in Venice he learns that the young lady's name is Ortensia and that she is the daughter of a powerful man, Alvise Foscarini, in fact Venice's chief inquisitor. Alessandro and Ortensia declare their love to each other and consider marrying, which infuriates Foscarini who does not want a "dissolute" artist in his family. Feeling the heat, the couple runs away from Venice. Having taken shelter in Torino, they are traced by the inquisitor, who pretending to feel remorse, has them return to Venice. But while they are on the road, Foscarini's hired assassins murder Alessandro. As for Ortensia she is taken back to her father's home by force.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsIrene DunneRex HarrisonLinda DarnellIn 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
- DirectorAnders HenriksonStarsAnders HenriksonSonja WigertGeorge FantThomas is an officer in the Salvation Army. He has religious doubts and questions the meaning of his work. He meets Lili, an ex-prostitute struggling to start a new life and he fall in love with her. However, she has a pimp, the boxer Herman, who won't let her leave.
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsEyvind Johan-SvendsenGunnar LauringSonja WigertA man and a woman meet in a shelter during an air raid. They feel strongly drawn to each other, but are separated without knowing exchanging names. A year later the two meet randomly. He now learns that she is addicted to morphine.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsCelia JohnsonTrevor HowardStanley HollowayMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- DirectorGabriel PascalStarsClaude RainsVivien LeighStewart GrangerAt the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAntonio VilarJosé AmaroIgrejas CaeiroThe adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsYelena KuzminaAnna LisyanskayaVasiliy ZaychikovThe story of one of the Soviet women transported to Germany after the Nazi invasion in World War II for forced labor, this one forced to become a household drudge.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsPoul ReichhardtLisbeth MovinPer BuckhøjThe memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German wartime prison.
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergStarsEwart G. MorrisonJohn HoyRay ReaganEscaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
- DirectorMuhammad KarimStarsDawlat AbiadFaten HamamahRaqyah IbrahimDunia's affair with Mohamed leads to tragic consequences for them and their child.
- DirectorPaul CalinescuStarsIoana CalinescuIleana NiculescuTaian VrajbaAn adaptation of a fairy tale written by Carmen Sylva, the pen name of the Queen of Romania.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCharles BoyerIngrid BergmanJoseph CottenTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGlenn FordGeorge MacreadyA small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsBoris ChirkovVasiliy MerkurevMikhail DerzhavinAbout the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsAnna MagnaniAmedeo NazzariCarla Del PoggioA contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsMai ZetterlingAlf KjellinÅke ClaessonThe officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his upper-class relatives. During the dinner he observes the beautiful young house-maid, Iris. He suggests that the two of them go out to see a movie. This is the beginning of love story that Robert's relatives will do anything to stop. A working-class mistress will do but a working-class fiancée? Never!
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsVladimir DruzhnikovYekaterina DerevshchikovaTamara MakarovaObsessed with perfecting his craft, young gemcutter Danilo visits the mystical Copper Mountain to uncover the secret behind its infamous attraction - the Stone Flower, a stone carving so captivating that no one can leave after seeing it.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsMarcel BarnaultJean ClarieuxJean DaurandRecounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
- DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsPierre BlancharMichèle MorganLine NoroA minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsCarlo CampaniniVera CarmiPaola VeneroniThe ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
- DirectorRené ClémentNoël-NoëlStarsNoël-NoëlMaurice ChevitAlice LeitnerIn the Charente, during the Nazi occupation, Edouard Martin, a fifty-year-old man with apparently peaceful life is in fact the leader of a resistance network.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsLouis JouvetGaby MorlayFrançois PérierA ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsCantinflasÁngel GarasaJanet AlcorizaA beautiful actress invites Cantinflas to work at a film studio, where he falls asleep and dreams he is D'Artagnan.
- DirectorRobert CormackClyde GeronimiJack KinneyStarsNelson EddyDinah ShoreLaverne AndrewsAnimation done to contemporary popular music.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizAlberto GalánIn Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. María Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple faces the greed of Mr. Damian, the town's shop owner who secretly desires María. When María falls sick with Malaria, Lorenzo Rafael steals a quinine bottle from Damian's shop, unleashing tragedy for the lovers.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsGustav NezvalLadislav H. StrunaJaroslav ZrotalThe action takes place in occupied Czechoslovak Republic after assassination of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia In Prague on 27 May 1942. Jirka is the boy whose family was murdered in the village of Lidice as repercussions for the assassination of Heydrich. He stays with his uncle - engineer Petr Lom. Marta - a young girl leaving next door, working at the post office helps to take care of the boy. Lom has just started working on the military airport, governed by Sudeten-Nazi named Ullman. Resistance is quite active in the airport, collecting arms and grenades and communicating with allies, sometimes doing some small diversion. They have a lot of great intel thanks to secretary Jana Tomesowa, who is trustee of Ullman and has access to a lot of restricted informations. Jirka also starts to help at the airport, but he's filled with sorrow and need of revenge. He's caught stealing grenade and arrested by gestapo. Later he's shot. When Jana sees it she faints, and Ullman finds some secret message she had with her. He tells he has found something to his gestapo friends and goes to the warehouse to investigate it himself. In there he's killed by resistance, by being pushed onto transformer. Gestapo starts arresting and searching houses of airport workers, and it turns out that Marta is working with Germans as informer. Lom doesn't know that yet, he's struck by Jirkas death. He picks the gun from his hideout and walks back to the airport. The neighbours tell him truth about Marta. Lom kills her and helps Jana escape. Germans gather airport workers and threaten to kill them all if noone says who killed Ullman. Then Lom appears saying he did it and killing men from gestapo who killed Jirka. He's killed by the soldiers. Workers go back to work. In last scene, dying Lom has vision of the future. He sees woman with gun (symbolizing Chechoslovakia) going forward with war attrocities around her. However she doesn't stop until the war is over and Czechoslovak flag appears on mast.
- DirectorChetan AnandStarsRafiq AnwarUma AnandKamini KaushalThe film takes an expressionist look at the gulf between the rich and poor in society. The film centers on wealthy, capacious landlord Sarkar (Rafi Peer) who lives in a palatial estate high on a mountain, while the poor toil and starve in the valley below. The villagers of 'Neecha Nagar' harbor hate for Sarkar, and their hatred is fueled even more by the fact that Sarkar plans to direct all the sewage into the village to make way for his housing project. The villagers protest this move with their head, Balraj (Rafiq Anwar) leading a movement against Sarkar's plan. Sarkar's daughter Maya (Uma Anand) joins the movement against her father and falls in love with Balraj. With the sewage flowing through the village, epidemic starts to spread, threatening the villagers' lives. Can the poor people of 'Neecha Nagar' survive the greed and wickedness of the rich? Can Sarkar and his malicious ways be put to an end?
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsZdenek StepánekVlasta MatulováOtomar KorbelárA bachelor is invited by the local alderman to improve the education in the Czech town of Rakovník.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantIngrid BergmanClaude RainsThe daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
- DirectorLouis DaquinStarsPierre BlancharJean DesaillyMaria MaubanBrussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement...
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsRobert AldaJoan LeslieAlexis SmithGeorge Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAnna MagnaniAldo FabriziMarcello PaglieroDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsMichael RedgraveRachel KempsonFrederick LeisterIn 1940, a concentration camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsStewart GrangerPhyllis CalvertJean KentBiography of the famous--and notorious--Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsJames MasonAnn ToddHerbert LomA concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
- DirectorBárbara VirgíniaStarsBárbara VirgíniaJoão PerryAlfredo RuasBefore assuming her post in an isolated village, a teacher must leave for three days with the town priest to confront the violent lord of the hill.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiMassimo GirottiMariella LottiSome Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsMikhail DerzhavinPyotr AndriyevskyYuriy TolubeevReleased after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoVera-EllenAfter being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.
- DirectorSergei YutkevichStarsNikolai LeonovT. StravinskayaOleg BobrovKolya Leonov performs a song about Moscow for a contest at a trade school. The school's director then tells the story of Kolya's accordion.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsGalina VodyanitskayaYekaterina SkvortsovaKseniya TarasovaA popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.
- DirectorEli LotarStarsRoger PigautJose FerreiraFabien LorisA short documentary about the industrial area on the outskirts of Paris, where many of the poor and working class who could not afford the more expensive rents in the City found cheaper housing.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniA social document of children, against the background of post WWII Milan.
- DirectorAleksandr ZguridiStarsOleg ZhakovYelena IzmailovaLev SverdlinThe history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsLeonid KhmaraRudolf BoettgerVasiliy ChuikovOver 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
- DirectorJim Mackay
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- DirectorRalph KeeneStarsValentine Dyall
- DirectorJacques-Yves CousteauStarsJacques-Yves CousteauFrédéric DumasPhilippe TailliezThe three 'Mousquemers' (Cousteau, Dumas and Tailliez) explore shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea and film their exploits as underwater spear hunters.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleEd BradyMinta DurfeeThe first of the Flicker Flashbacks series in which footage from silent films---shown at incorrect speed-- were used as subjects to be burlesqued. The honors on this one were bestowed on "Leading Lizzie Astray" starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, and "Rescued from an Eagle's Nest" starring D.W. Griffith.
- DirectorAllan CrickJohn HalasInstructional cartoon for the Admiralty.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKnox ManningJoseph GoebbelsAdolf HitlerThis short propaganda film, produced at the end of World War II, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas of racial hatred, violence and conquest live on in the German people, and in like-minded people in the United States.
- DirectorMuir MathiesonStarsLondon Symphony OrchestraMalcolm SargentAn introduction to all the instruments in the contemporary symphony orchestra.
- DirectorJean PainlevéStarsJacqueline CledonMichèle NadalA short subject exploring the relationship, using two dancers and five pieces, of time and space in the art of choreography.
- DirectorGilles MargaritisStarsRoger Caccia
- DirectorPaul GrimaultA minstrel, barred from entering a castle, is given a magic flute that can manipulate movement.
- DirectorMiguel ZacaríasStarsJorge NegreteMaría Elena MarquésEnrique HerreraIn rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
- DirectorNicholas Read
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsSylvia BatailleJane MarkenGeorges D'ArnouxThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- DirectorJirí BrdeckaJirí TrnkaAn animated short film in which chimney sweeper in spring enabled shoes is able to confound the German SS.
- DirectorJean MihailCinematic poem about the life of the village and the Romanian peasant in the post-war period.
- DirectorCharles NicholsStarsPinto ColvigJames MacDonaldClarence NashPolice dog Pluto is tracking down Butch, the dog that abducted rich dog "Ronnie" for a 10,000 bone ransom. Pluto releases Ronnie, but is hunted by Butch.
- DirectorJill CraigieStarsPeter WillesFrancis LuntVerena ChafféA look at Plymouth's hopes and fears just after the end of World War 2. Looks at the plan to rebuild the city - like a Phoenix, "the PLAN FOR PLYMOUTH." a local family, the Copperwheats are our stars supported by the City Engineer, Paton Watson and the progressive architect Lord Abercrombie.
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanKarel ZemanStarsJana HrdlickováChristmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or isn't it a dream...
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald re-paints his car, and a bird lands on it. In the mayhem that ensues, the car ends up covered with handprints, spotted a dozen different colors, stripped of paint, and covered with the stuffing from the seats so that it resembles a sheepdog.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaThe second cartoon by Jirí Trnka that was a sensation at the festival in Cannes in 1946 when it defeated the world animation elite of the time. It is a musical fairy-tale based on a famous folk story about animals that deterred thieves. The picture finished the monopoly of Disney's style in animation and it started an impetuous development of European animation. The picture is one of the best in the world of animation.