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7th Venice International Film Festival

7th Venice International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival chronology
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Festival date	8 August – 1 September 1939
Website	Website
8th 6th

The "7th" annual (void) Venice International Film Festival was held from 8 August to 1 September 1939. This edition has been strongly influenced by the Fascist regime and was deserted by the United States of America. The Mussolini Cup was won by the historical film Cardinal Messias, while the other main prizes were not awarded.^[1]

Jury

Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (Head of Jury)^[2]
Olaf Andersson
Luigi Bonelli
Ottavio Croze
Antonio de Obregón
Dino Falconi
F.T. Geldenhuys
Neville Kearney
Ernest Leichtenstern
Antonio Maraini
Ugo Ojetti
Vezio Orazi
Giacomo Paulucci de'Calboli
Junzo Sato
D.I. Suchianu
Zdenk Urban
Louis Villani
Carl Vincent

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
—	Margarita, Armando y su padre	Francisco Múgica	Argentina
Divorce in Montevideo	Divorcio en Montevideo	Manuel Romero	Argentina
From the Hills to the Valley	De la sierra al valle	Antonio Ber Ciani	Argentina
Ambition	Ambición	Adelqui Migliar	Argentina
The Outlaw	El matrero	Orestes Caviglia	Argentina
—	Congo, terre d'eaux vives (short film)	André Cauvin	Belgium
—	L'Agneau Mystique de Van Eyck (short film)	André Cauvin	Belgium
Humoreska		Otakar Vávra	Bohemia
Macoun the Tramp	Tulák Macoun	Ladislav Brom	Bohemia
—	Sklenice i chléb (short film)	Jaroslav Tuzar	Bohemia
Behind the Facade	Derrière la façade	Yves Mirande, Georges Lacombe	France
The Human Beast	La Bête humaine	Jean Renoir	France
The End of the Day	La Fin du jour	Julien Duvivier	France
The Five-Forty	Öt óra 40	André De Toth	Hungary