14th Venice International Film Festival

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Location Venice, Italy		Founded 1932
Festival date 20 August – 4 September 1953 Website http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/

The 14th Venice International Film Festival was held from 20 August to 4 September 1953.

Jury

Eugenio Montale (head of jury)

Gaetano Carancini

Sandro De Feo

Nino Ghelli

Gian Gaspare Napolitano

Luigi Rognoni

Antonio Petrucci

Silver Lion

Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné)

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Moulin Rouge (John Huston)

I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)

Sadko (Aleksandr Ptushko)

Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin)

Volpi Cup

Best Actor - Le bon Dieu sans confession (Henri Vilbert)

Best Actress - The Fourposter (Lilli Palmer)

Bronze Lion

Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)

I Was a Parish Priest (Rafael Gil)

Les Orgueilleux (Yves Allégret)

The Landowner's Daughter (Tom Payne)

OCIC Award

La guerra de Dios (Rafael Gil)

Pasinetti Award

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)

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