7th Venice International Film Festival

7th 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
N/A	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
N/A	Ambición	Adelqui Migliar	Argentina
N/A	El matrero	Orestes Caviglia	Argentina
N/A	Congo, terre d'eaux vives (short film)	André Cauvin	Belgium
N/A	L'Agneau Mystique de Van Eyck (short film)	André Cauvin	Belgium
N/A	Humoreska	Otakar Vávra	Bohemia
N/A	Tulák Macoun	Ladislav Brom	Bohemia
N/A	Sklenice i chléb (short film)	Jaroslav Tuzar	Bohemia
N/A	Derrière la façade	Yves Mirande, Georges Lacombe	France
N/A	La Bête humaine	Jean Renoir	France
N/A	La Fin du jour	Julien Duvivier	France

Awards

• Mussolini Cup
  • Best Film - Cardinal Messias (Goffredo Alessandrini)
• Volpi Cup
  • Best Actor - Not awarded.
  • Best Actress - Not awarded.
• Bronze Medal
  • Girls in Distress (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

References

External links

• 1939 Venice Film Festival at IMDB
• Venice Film Festival 1939