1962 Cannes Film Festival
The 15th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 23 May 1962. The Palme d'Or went to the O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte. The festival opened with Les Amants de Teruel, directed by Raymond Rouleau.
During the Cannes Film Festival of 1961, Robert Favre le Bret, Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival, with the agreement of the French Union of Film Critics, had decided to establish the International Critics' Week during the next Festival. In 1962, this parallel section of the Festival took place for the first time. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors from all over the world, not succumbing to commercial tendencies.
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1962 competition:Feature films
- Tetsurō Furukaki Jury President
- Henry Deutschmeister Vice President
- Sophie Desmarets
- Jean Dutourd
- Mel Ferrer
- Romain Gary
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Ernst Krüger
- Yuli Raizman
- Mario Soldati
- François Truffaut
- Charles Ford President
- Charles Duvanel
- Derek Prouse
- Georges Rouquier
- Andréas Winding
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:- Adorable Julia by Alfred Weidenmann
- Advise and Consent by Otto Preminger
- All Fall Down by John Frankenheimer
- Âmes et rythmes by Abdelaziz Ramdani
- And Love Has Vanished by Aleksandar Petrović
- A Bomb Was Stolen by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- The Bread of Those Early Years by Herbert Vesely
- Captive Flock by Ducho Mundrov
- Children of the Sun by Jacques Séverac
- Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda
- Devi by Satyajit Ray
- Divorce, Italian Style by Pietro Germi
- L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Elektra by Michael Cacoyannis
- The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel
- by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- Foundry Town by Kirio Urayama
- Harry and the Butler by Bent Christensen
- The Impossible Goodbye by Stanislaw Jedryka
- In the Steps of Buddha by Pragnasoma Hettiarachi
- The Innocents by Jack Clayton
- Joseph the Dreamer by Alina Gross and Yoram Gross
- Konga Yo by Yves Allégret
- Liberté I by Yves Ciampi
- Long Day's Journey Into Night by Sidney Lumet
- The Lovers of Teruel by Raymond Rouleau
- The Magnificent Concubine by Li Han Hsiang
- Man in Outer Space by Oldřich Lipský
- Mondo Cane by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi
- O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
- Plácido by Luis García Berlanga
- The Small Stranger by Georges Nasser
- A Taste of Honey by Tony Richardson
- The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson
- When the Trees Were Tall by Lev Kulidzhanov
Films out of competition
- Boccaccio '70 by Cesare Zavattini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Federico Fellini
- Le Crime ne paie pas by Gérard Oury
Short film competition
- Akheytzi by Lada Boyadjieva
- Anarkali, My Beautiful by Jean-Claude See
- Big City Blues by Charles Huguenot Van Der Linden
- Bolshie nepriyatnosti by Vladimir Brumberg & Zinaida Brumberg
- Certosa di pavia by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
- Clovek pod vodou by Jiří Brdečka
- Couro de gato by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
- Danza Espanola by Juan Gyenes
- Faces by Edward McConnell
- Image Of The Sea by Richard Alan Gray
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Robert Enrico
- Le Hampi by Claude Jutra, Roger Morilliere, Jean Rouch
- Les Dieux du feu by Henri Storck
- Les quatre saisons by Niklaus Gessner
- Ljubav I Film by Ivo Vrbanic
- Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
- Pan by Herman van der Horst
- Rodolphe Bresdin by Nelly Kaplan
- Roma momenti in Jazz by Enzo Battaglia
- Saguenay by Chris Chapman
- Szenvedely by Jozsef Nepp
- Tagebuch eines Reporters by Manfred Durniok
- Teeth Is Money by Jean Delire & Eddy Ryssack
- The Australian Landscape Painters by Richard Mason
- The Sound of Speed by Bruce Kessler
- Voronet by Ion Bostan
- Zambesi by Raymond Hancock
Parallel section
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 1st International Critics' Week :- Adieu Philippine by Jacques Rozier
- Alias Gardelito by Lautaro Murúa
- Bad Boys by Susumu Hani
- Football by R.Drew, R.Leacock, J.Lipscomb
- Les inconnus de la terre by Mario Ruspoli
- I nuovi angeli by Ugo Gregoretti
- Les Oliviers de la justice by James Blue
- Strangers in the City by Rick Carrier
- All Soul's Day by Tadeusz Konwicki
- Tres veces Ana by David José Kohon
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1962 Official selection awards:- Palme d'Or: O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
- Jury Special Prize:
- *L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni
- *The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson
- Best Actress:
- *Katharine Hepburn for Long Day's Journey Into Night
- *Rita Tushingham for A Taste of Honey
- Best Actor:
- *Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson for Long Day's Journey Into Night
- *Murray Melvin for A Taste of Honey
- Best Cinematic Transposition: Elektra by Michael Cacoyannis
- Best Comedy: Divorce, Italian Style by Pietro Germi
- Short Film Palme d'Or: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Robert Enrico
- Prix spécial du Jury: Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
- Short film Technical Prize:
- * Les Dieux du feu by Henri Storck
- * Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
- * Pan by Herman van der Horst
Independent awards
- FIPRESCI Prize: The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel
- Technical Grand Prize:
- *The Lovers of Teruel by Raymond Rouleau
- *Elektra by Michael Cacoyannis
- *The Magnificent Concubine by Li Han Hsiang
- The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson
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