8th Venice International Film Festival

8th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Festival date	23 August – 15 September 1947
Website	http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/

The 8th Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 15 September 1947. Formally, it wasn't still the Golden Lion to designate the highest honor of the event: the prize was named as the Grand International Prize of Venice.^[1]

Venice Film Festival at Palazzo Ducale in 1947

Jury

• Vinicio Marinucci^[2]
• Hugo Mauerhofer
• Antonin Brousil
• Jacques Ibert
• Fabrizio Malipiero
• Cirly Ray
• William Karol
• Carlo Benda
• Dimitri Jeriomin
• Jeanne Contini

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
N/A	Ngiri (short film)	Gérard De Boe	Belgium
People in the Clouds (Hora sred oblatzite)	Хора сред облаците (short film)	Zahari Zhandov	Bulgaria
(Svatba na selo)	Сватба на село (short film)	Stoyan Hristov	Bulgaria
One Day in Sofia (Edin den v Sofia)	Един ден в София (short film)	Zahari Zhandov	Bulgaria
The Stranger	The Stranger	Orson Welles	United States
Tomorrow Is Forever	Tomorrow Is Forever	Irving Pichel	United States
Spellbound	Spellbound	Alfred Hitchcock	United States
It Happened on 5th Avenue	It Happened on 5th Avenue	Roy Del Ruth	United States
Gallant Journey	Gallant Journey	William A. Wellman	United States
Odd Man Out	Odd Man Out	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
The Strike	Siréna	Karel Steklý	Czechoslovakia
Tragic Hunt	Caccia tragica	Giuseppe De Santis	Italy
	Monsieur Vincent	Maurice Cloche	France
Angelina	L'onorevole Angelina	Luigi Zampa	Italy
	Quai des Orfèvres	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
The Pearl	La perla	Gabriel Figueroa	Mexico

Awards

• Grand International Prize of Venice
  • Best Film - Siréna (Karel Steklý)
• Best Italian Film
  • Caccia tragica (Giuseppe De Santis)
• Silver Lion for Best Direction
  • Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
• Volpi Cup
  • Best Actor - Monsieur Vincent (Pierre Fresnay)
  • Best Actress - L'onorevole Angelina (Anna Magnani)
• Golden Osella
  • Best Original Screenplay - Vesna (Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Raskin and Moris Slobodskoy)
  • Best Cinematography - La perla (Gabriel Figueroa)
  • Best Original Music - Siréna (E.F. Burian)
• International Award
  • Dreams That Money Can Buy (Hans Richter)
  • La perla (Emilio Fernández)

References

1. "The 1940′s". Retrieved October 8, 2013.
2. "Juries for the 1940′s". Retrieved October 8, 2013.

External links

• 1947 Venice Film Festival at IMDB
• Venice Film Festival 1947