1973 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Ingrid Bergman Jury President
• Jean Delannoy
• Lawrence Durrell
• Rodolfo Echeverría
• Bolesław Michałek
• François Nourissier
• Leo Pestelli
• Sydney Pollack
• Robert Rozhdestvensky

• Robert Enrico President
• Samuel Lachize
• Alexandre Marin

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• Anna and the Wolves directed by Carlos Saura
• Belle directed by André Delvaux
• The Death of a Lumberjack directed by Gilles Carle
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds directed by Paul Newman
• Electra Glide in Blue directed by James William Guercio
• Fantastic Planet directed by René Laloux
• Far West directed by Jacques Brel
• Godspell directed by David Greene
• La Grande Bouffe directed by Marco Ferreri
• The Hireling directed by Alan Bridges
• directed by Luigi Zampa
• The Hour-Glass Sanatorium directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has
• The Invitation directed by Claude Goretta
• Jeremy directed by Arthur Barron
• Love and Anarchy directed by Lina Wertmüller
• The Mother and the Whore directed by Jean Eustache
• Monologue directed by Ilya Averbakh
• O Lucky Man! directed by Lindsay Anderson
• One Hamlet Less directed by Carmelo Bene
• La otra imagen directed by Antoni Ribas
• Petőfi '73 directed by Ferenc Kardos
• Scarecrow directed by Jerry Schatzberg
• The Vows directed by António de Macedo
• We Want the Colonels directed by Mario Monicelli

  Films out of competition

• Cries and Whispers directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Day for Night directed by François Truffaut
• A Doll's House directed by Joseph Losey
• Future Shock directed by Alex Grasshoff
• The Holy Mountain directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Lady Sings the Blues directed by Sidney J. Furie
• Lo Païs directed by Gérard Guérin
• Olivier Messiaen et les Oiseaux directed by Michel Fano, Denise Tual
• Picasso, Peintre Du Siècle 1900-1973 directed by Lauro Venturi
• Story of a Love Story directed by John Frankenheimer
• Swastika directed by Philippe Mora
• Visions of Eight directed by Miloš Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Kon Ichikawa, John Schlesinger, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar
• Wattstax directed by Mel Stuart
• We Can't Go Home Again directed by Nicholas Ray

  Short film competition

• Az 1812-es év by Sándor Reisenbüchler
• Balablok by Břetislav Pojar
• Langage du geste by Kamal El Sheikh
• La Ligne de sceaux by Jean-Paul Torok
• Skagen 1972 by Claus Weeke
• Space Boy by Renate Druks
• La Tête by Emile Bourget

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Le Charbonnier by Mohamed Bouamari
• The Water Was So Clear by Yoichi Takabayashi
• Ganja & Hess by Bill Gunn
• Kashima Paradise by Yann Le Masson, Bénie Deswarte
• Enough Praying by Aldo Francia
• Vivre ensemble by Anna Karina
• Non ho tempo by Ansano Giannarelli
• Nunta de piatră by Mircea Veroiu, Dan Pita

  Directors' Fortnight

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Werner Herzog
• The Sparrow by Youssef Chahine
• All Nudity Shall Be Punished by Arnaldo Jabor
• Black Holiday by Marco Leto
• La città del sole by Gianni Amelio
• Coup d'Etat by Yoshishige Yoshida
• Days of '36 by Theo Angelopoulos
• Desaster by Reinhard Hauff
• Drustvena Igra by Srdjan Karanovic
• El Cambio by Alfredo Joskowicz
• Farlige Kys by Henrik Stangerup
• Hannibal by Xavier Koller
• History Lessons by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
• Lovely Swine by Jean Marboeuf
• Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política by Helvio Soto
• Payday by Daryl Duke
• Photography by Pal Zolnay
• Quem é Beta? by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
• Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand
• Some Call It Loving by James B. Harris
• The Sun Rises Once a Day by Henryk Kluba
• Touki Bouki by Djibril Diop Mambety
• A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Claude Weisz
• La vita in gioco by Gianfranco Mingozzi
• Wedding in White by William Fruet
• Zwartziek by Jacob Bijl
• Ein Leben by Herbert Schramm
• El hombre que va a misa by Bernardo Borenholtz
• Ermitage by Carmelo Bene
• Fil a fil by Christian Paureilhe
• Grey City by Farshid Meshgali
• Introduction a la musique d'accompagnement by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
• L'audition by Jean-François Dion
• La version originelle by Paul Dopff
• Le lapin chasseur by Thomas Lehestre
• Le soldat et les trois sœurs by Pascal Aubier
• Le travail du comédien by Atahualpa Lichy
• Le ventriloque by Carmelo Bene
• Moc by Vlatko Gilic
• Pourquoi by Jean-Denis Berenbaum
• Rendez-vous romantique by Michka Gorki
• Simplexes by Claude Huhardeaux
• Take Off by Gunvor Nelson
• Zastave by Zoran Jovanovic

  Awards

Official awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
• *The Hireling by Alan Bridges
• *Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg
• Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: The Mother and the Whore by Jean Eustache
• Best Actress: Joanne Woodward for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• Best Actor: Giancarlo Giannini for Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...
• Jury Prize:
• *Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą by Wojciech Has
• *L'Invitation by Claude Goretta
• Special Award: La Planète sauvage by René Laloux
• Best First Work: Jeremy by Arthur Barron

• Grand Prix International du Festival: Balablok by Břetislav Pojar
• Prix spécial du Jury: Az 1812-es év by Sándor Reisenbüchler

  Independent awards

• FIPRESCI Prize:
• *La Grande Bouffe by Marco Ferreri
• *The Mother and the Whore by Jean Eustache

• Technical Grand Prize: Cries and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman

• Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg

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