1949 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner

Manon
Henri-Georges Clouzot
An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want…
1949 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Nominees

A Man and His Sin
Paul Gury

Aux yeux du souvenir
Jean Delannoy

Black Shadows
André Cauvin

Champion
Mark Robson

Dom na pustkowiu
Jan Rybkowski

Eva
Gustaf Molander

Fiamma che non si spegne
Vittorio Cottafavi

Geheimnisvolle Tiefe
Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Girls Behind Bars
Alfred Braun

Hardly a Criminal
Hugo Fregonese

Heaven Over the Marshes
Augusto Genina

Johnny Belinda
Jean Negulesco

Jour de fête
Jacques Tati

Kind Hearts and Coronets
Robert Hamer

La malquerida
Emilio Fernández

Le sorcier du ciel
Marcel Blistène

Look for the Silver Lining
David Butler

Meera
Ellis Dungan

No Alternative
Joseph Lejtes

Pact with the Devil
Luigi Chiarini

Portrait of Jennie
William Dieterle

Scott of the Antarctic
Charles Frend

Sofka
Rados Novakovic

St. Matthew Passion
Ernst Marischka

The Berliner
Robert A. Stemmle

The Blue Lagoon
Frank Launder

The Dynamite Brothers
Nino Pagot

The Fighting Pimpernel
Michael Powell

The Fool and the Princess
William C. Hammond

The Forgotten Village
Herbert Kline

The Mill on the Po
Alberto Lattuada

The Quiet One
Sidney Meyers

The Sinners
Julien Duvivier

The Snake Pit
Anatole Litvak

The Three Caballeros
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