7th Locarno Film Festival

7th Locarno Film Festival
Location	Locarno, Switzerland
Founded	1946
Festival date	Opening: 2 July 1953 ; Closing: 12 July 1953
Website	Locarno Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival
	8th 6th

The 7th Locarno Film Festival was held from 2 July to 12 July 1953 in Locarno, Switzerland.^[1] This was the first time the festival had a films for tourism section^[1]

The festival was also notable for screening films from three countries under Soviet influence, the Soviet Union (Russia), Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, despite many European festivals admitting no films from the Soviet block during this period.^[2] This is, in part, due to the fact that films at Locarno were submitted by their Swiss distributors not directly by their government.^[2]

Official Sections

The following films were screened in these sections:^[3]

Pre-Program

Pre-Program
Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Brücken Über Europa	Joachim Gunther, Walter Leckebusch	1950	Germany
Ciampino			Italia
Costumi Della Sardegna	Fiorenzo Serra		Italia
Halte! Frontiere Suisse			Switzerland
Immagini E Colori	Vittorio Sala	1938	Italia
Peccato Di Desiderio	M. Crispolti		Italia
Peccatori Di Laguna	Antonio Petrucci		Italia
Quick Das Eichhörnschen	Heinz Spielman	1953	Germany
Stare Povesti Ceske	Jiri Trnka	1953	Czech Republic

Programme Principal

Programme Principal

Programme Principal
Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Alger - Le Cap	Serge de Poligny	1952	France
Belle Mentalite'	André Berthomieu	1953	France
Canzoni Di Mezzo Secolo	Domenico Paolella	1952	Italia
Carnaval	Henri Verneuil	1953	France
Cisaruv Pekar	Martin Fric	1951	Czech Republic
Citius-Altius-Fortius	Hannu Leminen	1952	Finland
Concierto Magico	Rafael J. Salvia	1953	Spain
Die Spur Führt Nach Berlin	Franz Cap	1952	Germany
Dortoir Des Grandes	Henri Decoin	1953	France
Erkel	Marton Keleti	1952	Hungary
Europa '51	Roberto Rossellini	1952	Italia
Febbre Di Vivere	Claudio Gora	1953	Italia
Ferdinand Hodler Face A L'Homme	Herbert E. v		Switzerland
I Sette Dell'Orsa Maggiore	Duilio Coletti	1952	Italia
Jianghu Ernü	Fei Mu, Zhu Shilin	1952	Hong Kong
Julius Caesar	David Bradley	1953	USA
Kompositor Glinka	Grigorij Aleksandrov	1952	Russia
La Signora Senza Camelie	Michelangelo Antonioni	1953	Italia
Le Infedeli	Steno Monicelli, Mario Monicelli	1953	Italia
Le Père De Mademoiselle	Robert Dagan, Marcel LHerbier	1953	France
My Six Convicts	Hugo Fregonese	1952	USA
Never Wave At A Wac	Norman Z. Mc Leod	1952	USA
Postlagernd Turteltaube	Gerhard T. Buchholz	1952	Germany
Puccini	Carmine Gallone	1953	Italia
Rayes Des Vivants	Maurice Cloche	1952	France
Sadko	Aleksandr Ptouchko	1953	Russia
The Glass Wall	Maxwell Shane	1953	USA
The Yellow Balloon	J. Lee Thompson	1953	Great Britain
Vergiss Die Liebe Nicht	Paul Verhoeven	1953	Germany
Wo Ldach Arktis	Aleksandr Sguridi		Russia

Special Sections

Special Sections / Private Visions
Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Carmen Proibita	G.M. Scotese	1953	Italia
Cronaca Di Un Delitto	Mario Sequi	1953	Italia
Non Ê Mai Troppo Tardi	Carlo Carlini	1953	Italia
Potomok Tchingis-Khana	Vsevolod Poudovkine	1928	Russia
Rund Um Den Kilimandscharo	G. Schneider		Switzerland
Siamo Tutti Inquilini	Mario Mattoli	1953	Italia
Son Dernier Noël	Jacques Daniel-Norman	1952	France
Una Donna Prega	Anton Giulio Rajano	1953	Italia
Viale Della Speranza	Dino Risi	1953	Italia
Vozvrachtchenie Vassilia Bortnikova	Vsevolod Poudovkine	1952	Russia

International Tourism Film Review

Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Ballon Vole		Switzerland
Baroque		Czech Republic
Bauernhochzeit In Der Schwalm		Germany
Carcassone, Vigie Occitane		France
Daphni The Virgin Of The Golden Laurels		Greece
Die Alte Deutsche Stadt		Germany
Fishing The Water Wilderness		USA
L'Or Vert, Tresor De La Finlande		Finland
La Chanson De La Foret		Czech Republic
La Finlande Vous Sourit		Finland
Land Of Enlightment		India
Le Rocce Di Eolo	Giovanni Paolucci	Italia
Music Of India		India
Noche De Grenada		Spain
Ousbekistan Sovietique		Switzerland
Presentation De La Beauce A Notre-Dame De Chartres		France
Promenade A Travers Le Danemark		Denmark
Reiseziel Aegypten		Switzerland
Road To Canterbury		Great Britain
Salzburger Welttheater		Austria
Sardegna	Ubaldo Magnaghi	Italia
Seville		Spain
Summertime In Attica		Greece
Travel Royal		Great Britain
Yellowstone National Park		USA

Comic Cinema in the Silent Era

France - Early Comedies

Aspects of Comic Cinema At the Time of Mute / France (Primitive Comics)
Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Boireau Domestique	André Deed	1907	France
Dix Femmes Pour Un Mari		1905	France
L'Arroseur Arrose			France
Le Baptême De Calino		1907	France
Le Dejeuner De Bebe		1895	France
Le Faux Cul De Jatte			France
Le Voyage A Travers L'Impossible	G. Méliès	1904	France
Max Pedicure	Max Linder	1914	France
Max Veut Grandir	Max Linder	1912	France
Max Victime Du Quinquina	Max Linder	1911	France
Rigadin Et Miss Margaret		1907	France
Une Veine De Bossu	Max Linder	1908	France

Italy - Early Comedies

Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Amor Pedestre	Marcel Favre	1914	Italia
Cinessino Il Grammofono	Conès	1914	Italia
Il Duello /Cretinetti Cerca Un Duello (?)	André Deed	1909	Italia
L'Avventura Galante Di Un Provinciale	Luca Comerio	1908	Italia
La Sveglia		1908	Italia
Onomastico Della Moglie		1908	Italia
Polidor Si Sposa	Ferdinand Guillaume		Italia
Robinet Guardia Ciclista	Marcel Favre	1913	Italia

United States - Comedy And Satire

Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
L'Allegro Fante	Charles Reisner	1920	USA
Sunnyside	Charlie Chaplin	1919	USA

United States - Mack Sennett School

Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Fatty Portalettere	Roscoe Arbuckle	1917	USA
Harold Antiquario	Harold Lloyd	1919	USA
Il Solitario Luca	Harold Lloyd		USA
Nel Paese Degli Armadilli	Buster Keaton	1918	USA
The Freshman	Harold Lloyd	1925	USA
Un'Avventura Nominata	Mack Sennett	1920	USA

Independent Sections

Swiss Cinema

Swiss Cinema Retrospective Review
Title	Director(s)	Year	Production Country
Die Missbrauchten Liebesbriefe	Léopold Lindtberg	1940	Switzerland
Il Neige Sul Le Haut Pays	C.G. Duvanel	1944	Switzerland
L'Annee Vigneronne	C.G. Duvanel		Switzerland
La Vocation D'Andre Carel	Jean Choux	1952	Switzerland
Romeo Und Julia Auf Dem Dorfe	Valerian Schmidely, Hans Trommer	1941	Switzerland
So Lebt China	Emil Berna, Lazare Wechsler	1936	Switzerland

Awards

International Critics Jury

Prize of the International Critics Jury: THE GLASS WALL by Maxwell Shane, KOMPOSITOR GLINKA by Grigorij Aleksandrov, JULIUS CAESAR by David Bradley

Jury of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists

Prize of the Jury of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists: JULIUS CAESAR by David Bradley, STARE POVESTI CESKE by Jiri Trnka, THE UNFAITHFULS by Steno Vanzina
Mention of the Jury of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists: Hans Trommer, Herbert Meyer, Charles-Georges Duvanel

Source:^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "International: Locarno film fete in july". Variety. 190. Los Angelos: Variety: 11. 29 April 1953. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
^ ^a ^b Hawkins, R. E. (22 July 1953). "Miscellany: Locarno pix fest sees russian return, hassle over 16m 'caesar' entry". Variety. Vol. 191, no. 7. pp. 2, 62.
^ "Locarno Film Festival · All the films of the Locarno Film Festival..." Locarno Film Festival. Archived from the original on 7 April 2025. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
^ "1953 Locarno Film Festival". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 8 April 2025.

External links

Official website

[:0-1] "International: Locarno film fete in july". Variety. 190. Los Angelos: Variety: 11. 29 April 1953. Retrieved 17 April 2025.

[:1-2] Hawkins, R. E. (22 July 1953). "Miscellany: Locarno pix fest sees russian return, hassle over 16m 'caesar' entry". Variety. Vol. 191, no. 7. pp. 2, 62.

[3] "Locarno Film Festival · All the films of the Locarno Film Festival..." Locarno Film Festival. Archived from the original on 7 April 2025. Retrieved 15 April 2025.

[4] "1953 Locarno Film Festival". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 8 April 2025.

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