The 1st Locarno Film Festival was held from 23 August til 2 September 1946 at the Grand Hotel in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film was My Sun (O sole mio) by Giacomo Gentilomo.
The festival was founded by Beretta Bolla, Riccardo Bolla, film critic Vinicio Beretta, Locarno theater owner André Mondini, and Giuseppe Padlin of the distribution house Sefi Film.
Official Sections The following films received screenings in the sections below:
Special Sections / Private Visions Highlighted title indicates winner English title Original title Director(s) Production Country And Then There Were None René Clair United States Hangover Square John Brahm United States His Young WifeLe miserie del Signor Travet Mario Soldati Italy The Hour of TruthLa hora de la verdad Norman Foster Mexico The House on 92nd Street Henry Hathaway United States Inês de Castro (1944) José Leitao de Barros Portugal, Spain The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) William A. Wellman United States "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) Mister V Leslie Howard United Kingdom Strange FateÉtrange destin Louis Cuny France Under the BridgesUnter den Brücken Helmut Käutner Germany
Principal Program Highlighted title indicates winner & indicates screenplay winner English title Original Ttile Director(s) Production Country Bathing Beauty Georges Sidney United States Biraghin Carmine Gallone Italy Dead of Night Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer United Kingdom The Dolly Sisters Irving Cummings United States Double Indemnity Billy Wilder Interlude I Dodens Vantrum Hasse Elkman Sweden Ivan the TerribleИван Грозный Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union The Keys Of The Kingdom John M. Stahl United States Life Begins Anew La Vita Ricomincia Mario Mattoli Italy My SunO sole mio Giacomo Gentilomo Blind Desire La Part De L'Ombre Jean Delannoy France Rome Open CityRoma Città Aperta Roberto Rossellini Italy The Song of Bernardette Henry King United States The Temptation of BarbizonLa Tentation De Barbizon Jean Stelli France Tonight And Every Night Victor Saville United States
Documentary Films (Revue du film documentaire) Title Director(s) Production Country A Defeated People Humphrey Jennings United Kingdom Bau Des Kraftwerkes Rupperswil-Auenstein Valerian Schmidely Switzerland Die Gewerkschaften Switzerland Faim Rudy Hornacker Netherlands Kinder In Not A. Forter Switzerland La Feerie Des Automates Victor Borel Switzerland La Lapponie Arne Sucksdorff Sweden La Parade Sportive A Moscou Vladimir Beljaew, Wenjer Soviet Union Naissance Du Cinema Roger Leenhardt France Steel Ronald Riley United Kingdom Tennessee Valley Authority Slavko Vorkapich United States Typical Pictures Of Swiss Life Valerian Schmidely Switzerland Vinden Fran Väster Arne Sucksdorff Sweden
Official Awards
Best Film: And Then There Were None by René Clair Prize for the most interesting Screenplay: Dead of Night by Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden Best Photo Prize: Ivan the Terrible by Serguei Eisenstein Best Actor: Laird Cregar in Hangover Square Best Director: René Clair Best Actress: Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette Funniest film prize: "Pimpernel" Smith by Leslie Howard
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