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1972 Cannes Film Festival

1972 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 25th Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Opening filmL'aventure c'est l'aventure
Closing filmFrenzy
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsGrand Prix:
The Mattei Affair
The Working Class
Goes to Heaven
No. of films25 (In Competition)[2]
Festival date4 May 1972 (1972-05-04) – 19 May 1972 (1972-05-19)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en

The 25th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 4 to 19 May 1972. American filmmaker Joseph Losey served as jury president for the main competition.[3]

The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was unanimously jointly awarded to Italian drama films The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri and The Mattei Affair by Francesco Rosi.[4]

The festival opened with L'aventure, c'est l'aventure by Claude Lelouch,[5][6] and closed with Frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock.[7]

  1. ^ "Posters 1972". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference selection was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "25ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  4. ^ "1972 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ^ "L'Aventure c'est l'aventure". festival-lumiere.org (in French). Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  6. ^ "L'Aventure c'est l'aventure: Sea, sex & classe!". cinecomedies.com. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  7. ^ "The closing films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

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