1972 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner

Lulu the Tool
Elio Petri
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. Although the physical handicap is not serious, the accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.

The Mattei Affair
Francesco Rosi
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of …
1972 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Nominees

A Fan’s Notes
Eric Till

Havoc
Peter Fleischmann

Hearth Fires
Serge Korber

I Love You Rosa
Moshé Mizrahi

Images
Robert Altman

Jeremiah Johnson
Sydney Pollack

King, Queen, Knave
Jerzy Skolimowski

La vraie nature de Bernadette
Gilles Carle

Louise
Philippe de Broca

Malpertuis
Harry Kümel

Oil Lamps
Juraj Herz

Perla w koronie
Kazimierz Kutz

Red Psalm
Miklós Jancsó

Silence
Masahiro Shinoda

Slaughterhouse-Five
George Roy Hill

Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky

The Ruling Class
Peter Medak

The Seduction of Mimi
Lina Wertmüller

The Surveyors
Michel Soutter

The Visitors
Elia Kazan

To Find a Man
Buzz Kulik

Trotta
Johannes Schaaf
