Film festival in Locarno, Switzerland
The7th Locarno Film Festival was held from 2 July to 12 July 1953 inLocarno , Switzerland.[ 1] This was the first time the festival had a films for tourism section[ 1]
The festival was also notable for screening films from three countries under Soviet influence, theSoviet Union (Russia),Hungary , andCzechoslovakia , despite many European festivals admitting no films from the Soviet bloc during this period.[ 2] This is, in part, due to the fact that films at Locarno were submitted by their Swiss distributors not directly by their government.[ 2]
The following films were screened in these sections:[ 3]
Pre-Program Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Brücken Über Europa Joachim Gunther, Walter Leckebusch 1950 Germany Ciampino Italy Costumi Della Sardegna Fiorenzo Serra Italy Halte! Frontiere Suisse Switzerland Immagini E Colori Vittorio Sala 1938 Italy Peccato Di Desiderio M. Crispolti Italy Peccatori Di Laguna Antonio Petrucci Italy Quick Das Eichhörnschen Heinz Spielman 1953 Germany Staré Povesti Ceské Old Czech Legends Jiri Trnka 1953 Czech Republic
Programme Principal [ edit ] Programme Principal
International Tourism Film Review [ edit ] Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Ballon Vole Switzerland Baroque Czech Republic Bauernhochzeit In Der Schwalm Germany Carcassone, Vigie Occitane France Dafni (Panagia Hrysodafniotissa) Daphni: The Virgin Of The Golden Laurels George Hoynigen-Huene , Angelos Propkopiou1951 Greece Die Alte Deutsche Stadt Germany Fishing The Water Wilderness USA L'Or Vert, Tresor De La Finlande Finland La Chanson De La Foret Czech Republic La Finlande Vous Sourit Finland Land Of Enlightment India Le Rocce Di Eolo Giovanni Paolucci Italy Music Of India India Noche De Grenada Spain Ousbekistan Sovietique Switzerland Presentation De La Beauce A Notre-Dame De Chartres France Promenade A Travers Le Danemark Denmark Reiseziel Aegypten Switzerland Road To Canterbury David Eady 1952 Great Britain Salzburger Welttheater Austria Sardegna Ubaldo Magnaghi Italy Seville Spain Summertime In Attica Greece Travel Royal Peter Bradford 1952 Great Britain Yellowstone National Park USA
Comic Cinema in the Silent Era [ edit ] France - Early Comedies [ edit ] Italy - Early Comedies [ edit ] English Title Original Title Director(s) Year Production Country Pedestrian Love Amor Pedestre Marcel Favre 1914 Italy Cinessino and the Gramophone Cinessino Il Grammofono Conès 1914 Italy Foolshead Looks for a Duel Il Duello /Cretinetti Cerca Un Duello (?) André Deed 1909 Italy The Gallant Adventure of a Provincial L'Avventura Galante Di Un Provinciale Luca Comerio 1908 Italy La Sveglia Travetti 1908 Italy Onomastico Della Moglie 1908 Italy Polidor Gets Married Polidor Si Sposa Ferdinand Guillaume 1912 Italy Tweedledum as a Cycling Policeman Robinet Guardia Ciclista Marcel Favre 1913 Italy
United States - Comedy And Satire [ edit ] United States - Mack Sennett School [ edit ] Independent Sections [ edit ] Swiss Cinema Retrospective Review Original Title English Title Director(s) Year Production Country Die Missbrauchten Liebesbriefe Léopold Lindtberg 1940 Switzerland Il Neige Sul Le Haut Pays C.G. Duvanel 1944 Switzerland L'Annee Vigneronne C.G. Duvanel Switzerland La Vocation D'Andre Carel The Vocation of André Carel Jean Choux 1952 Switzerland Romeo Und Julia Auf Dem Dorfe Valerian Schmidely, Hans Trommer 1941 Switzerland So Lebt China Emil Berna , Lazare Wechsler1936 Switzerland
International Critics Jury [ edit ] Jury of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists [ edit ] Prize of the Jury of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists: JULIUS CAESAR directed by David Bradley,STARE POVESTI CESKE directed by Jiri Trnka,THE UNFAITHFULS directed by Steno VanzinaMention of the Jury of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists: Hans Trommer, Herbert Meyer, Charles-Georges DuvanelSource:[ 4]
Awards
Main competition Retired categories
By year