6th Venice International Film Festival

The 6th Venice International Film Festival was held between 8–14 August 1938. The festival screened a French cinema retrospective, spanning works from 1891 to 1933.^[1][2]

Jury

• Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (president) (Italy)^[3]
• Olaf Andersson (Sweden)
• Luigi Freddi (Italy)
• Milous Havel (Czechoslovakia)
• Neville Kearney (UK)
• René Jeanne (France)
• Oswald Lehnich (Germany)
• Antonio Maraini (Italy)
• Humberto Mauro (Brazil)
• Edmond Moreau (Switzerland)
• Eitel Monaco (Italy)
• Ryszard Ordynski (Poland)
• Giacomo Paolucci de Calboli Barone (Italy)
• Alfonso Rivas Bustamante (Mexico)
• Harold Smith (USA)
• Junzo Sato (Japan)
• F. L. Theron (South Africa)
• Carl Vincent (Belgium)
• Louis Villani (Hungary)

In-Competition films

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Norman Taurog
• The Drum by Zoltán Korda
• Gonin no Sekkohei by Tomotaka Tasaka
• Heimat by Carl Froelich
• Jezebel by William Wyler
• Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
• Marie Antoinette by W. S. Van Dyke
• Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit by Leni Riefenstahl
• Prison sans barreaux by Léonide Moguy
• Pygmalion by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen and David Hand

Awards

• Best Film:
  • Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
  • Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit by Leni Riefenstahl
• Volpi Cup:
  • Best Actor: Leslie Howard for Pygmalion
  • Best Actress: Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette
• Special Recommendation:
  • Allá en el Rancho Grande by Fernando de Fuentes
  • Break the News by René Clair
  • Der Mustergatte with Heinz Rühmann
  • En kvinnas ansikte by Gustaf Molander
  • Fahrendes Volk by Jacques Feyder
  • Geniusz sceny by Ludwik Solski
  • Hanno rapito un uomo by Gennaro Righelli
  • Jezebel by William Wyler
  • Le quai des brumes by Marcel Carné
  • Michelangelo by Curt Oertel
  • Sotto la croce del sud by Guido Brignone
  • The Rage of Paris by Henry Koster
  • Thema's van de inspiratie by Charles Dekeukeleire
  • Urlaub auf Ehrenwort by Karl Ritter
  • Vivacious Lady by George Stevens
• Best Director: Heimat by Carl Froelich
• Medal: Natur und Technik by Ulrich K. T. Schultz
• Best Short - Fiction:
  • Armonie pucciniane by Giorgio Ferroni
  • Karakoram by Henri de Ségogne
  • Sv. Istvan (Magyar Film Iroda)
• Best Documentary:
  • Nella luce di Roma (Istituto Nazionale Luce)
  • The River by Pare Lorentz
• Best Educative or Scientific Film: Der Bienenstaat by Ulrich K. T. Schultz
• Special Award (The Grand Art Trophy): Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen and David Hand

References

1. "Venice Film Festival: The 30s". labiennale.org. Retrieved 2009-06-27.
2. "The 1930s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
3. "Juries for the 1930′s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.

External links

• Venice Film Festival:1938 at Internet Movie Database
• Venice Film Festival 1938