6th Venice International Film Festival

Film festival

6th Venice International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival chronology

Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Festival date	8 – 31 August 1938
Website	Website
7th 5th

The 6th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 8 and 31 August 1938.^[1] The festival screened a French cinema retrospective, spanning works from 1891 to 1933.^[2]^[3]

Jury

Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (president) (Italy)^[4]
Olaf Andersson (Sweden)
Luigi Freddi (Italy)
Miloš Havel (Czechoslovakia)
Neville Kearney (UK)
René Jeanne (France)
Oswald Lehnich (Germany)
Antonio Maraini (Italy)
Humberto Mauro (Brazil)
Edmond Moreau (Switzerland)
Eitel Monaco (Italy)
Ryszard Ordynski (Poland)
Giacomo Paolucci de Calboli Barone (Italy)
Alfonso Rivas Bustamante (Mexico)
Harold Smith (USA)
Junzo Sato (Japan)
F. L. Theron (South Africa)
Carl Vincent (Belgium)
Louis Villani (Hungary)

In-Competition films

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Norman Taurog
The Drum by Zoltán Korda
Gonin no Sekkohei by Tomotaka Tasaka
Heimat by Carl Froelich
Jezebel by William Wyler
Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
Marie Antoinette by W. S. Van Dyke
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit by Leni Riefenstahl
Prison sans barreaux by Léonide Moguy
Pygmalion by Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, David Hand
Young Noszty and Mary Toth by Steve Sekely

Awards

Best Film:
- Luciano Serra pilota by Goffredo Alessandrini
- Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit by Leni Riefenstahl
Volpi Cup:
- Best Actor: Leslie Howard for Pygmalion
- Best Actress: Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette
Special Recommendation:
- Allá en el Rancho Grande by Fernando de Fuentes
- Break the News by René Clair
- Der Mustergatte with Heinz Rühmann
- En kvinnas ansikte by Gustaf Molander
- Fahrendes Volk by Jacques Feyder
- Geniusz sceny by Ludwik Solski
- Hanno rapito un uomo by Gennaro Righelli
- Jezebel by William Wyler
- Le quai des brumes by Marcel Carné
- Michelangelo by Curt Oertel
- Sotto la croce del sud by Guido Brignone
- The Rage of Paris by Henry Koster
- Thema's van de inspiratie by Charles Dekeukeleire
- Urlaub auf Ehrenwort by Karl Ritter
- Vivacious Lady by George Stevens
Best Director: Heimat by Carl Froelich
Medal: Natur und Technik by Ulrich K. T. Schultz
Best Short - Fiction:
- Armonie pucciniane by Giorgio Ferroni
- Karakoram by Henri de Ségogne
- Sv. Istvan (Magyar Film Iroda)
Best Documentary:
- Nella luce di Roma (Istituto Nazionale Luce)
- The River by Pare Lorentz
Best Educative or Scientific Film: Der Bienenstaat by Ulrich K. T. Schultz
Special Award (The Grand Art Trophy): Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen and David Hand