East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.

1957 comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada

A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great difficulty: the elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives to the village.

电影以战后十年日本霞浦面向的农村作为故事发生的舞台。插秧结束后的农村祭典举行期间，村子里的年轻男子们时兴调戏对岸的少女们。田村次男在一次夜袭对岸的过程中看到了农家默默劳作的千代，对她产生了好感。但次男因为捕鱼的事情和千代的母亲发生了争吵。在那之后，次男和仙吉一起扬帆起航，手无寸铁的二人逐渐驶向了边界线之外钓鱼。

This easy-to-take Hungarian drama is also known as Two Wishes. The prinicipal characters are a pair of juvenile delinquents, who may still be redeemable. The sullen duo is befriended by a kindly police inspector, who takes it upon himself to straighten out the boys. What follows cannot be termed surprsingly or innovative, though it is immensely satisfying. Of interest is the fact that a Communist-bloc film would admit to a delinquency problem in the so-called Worker's Paradise. Ket Vallomas was the Hungarian entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

皮鞋匠吉采一心想发财致富，于是丢掉了制鞋手艺，在乡下开了一家酒店。可是强盗常常来找他的麻烦。强盗里凯为了赚更多的钱，收买吉采给他当窝主打掩护。吉采因为贪财答应了强盗的建议，从此一步步地走上不能自拔的毁灭之路。当强盗里凯侮辱了他的妻子后，他神经错乱，在疯狂状态中杀死了自己的妻子，而他也被里凯所杀。这时警察来了，里凯在警察追击下葬身火海。
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影片根据同名小说改编，原小说以偏僻农村的一家酒店的名字为名。荒野的十字路口，孤零零的一家酒店，骏马一望无际的森林中奔驰。这里有美丽的旅店老板娘，有强悍的骑士，杀人越货，无恶不作，看上去很像美国的西部片。导演说，小说作者是19 世纪的作家，早在美国西部片问世之前就写下了部小说。著名的老导演伊里乌曾拍摄过多部影片，在发展罗马尼亚民族电影艺术方面作出重大贡献。本片风格清新，手法简洁，至今仍被认为是罗马尼亚电影史上的个里程碑。

A sprawling portrait of rural life in Sri Lanka; the story revolves around a boy and his friend--a blind girl who he accidentally 'heals' by giving her sight. Though the girl believes the boy healed her, in reality the boy has no such powers. The father of the boy fools the village folk into believing he's a healer, but ultimately the sham is exposed, causing the village to revolt against the boy and his family.

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.

This Norwegian documentary was released in other countries as Lapland Calendar. In Disneyesque fashion, the film details the day-to-day existence of the Norwegian Laplanders. The "story" concentrates on the annual odyssey wherein the Lapland reindeer are shepherded to snow-free grazing lands. Not surprisingly, director Per Host is more fascinated with the reindeer than with the human characters -- and, by extension, so is the audience. The film was lensed in economical Eastmancolor, meaning that most existing prints have washed out over the past 40 years.

A Bulgarian village before the First World War. The young and ambitious farmer Enyo loves the beautiful but poor Tsveta. His brother and his wife arrange their engagement. The hunchback girl Stanka, daughter of the richest man in the village, is in love with Enyo. Because of her father's lands Enyo decides to end his engagement with Tsveta and starts building up his farm.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide together in a secluded place. The war has left different marks on each of them, but they all long for normal human happiness. Although they initially have different attitudes towards military service, they are changed by their stay in seclusion and the atmosphere of life in a peasant cottage and refuse to return to the Austrian army. But all three Theresian "misfits" take up arms again, which they no longer want to touch, when the solitude is overrun by the Prussians. They manage to cover the escape of the family and their child, but pay with their lives.

《毕加索的秘密》（Le Mystère Picasso，亨利—乔治·克鲁佐，1956年|80分钟|35毫米|黑白与彩色|有声）以悬疑片的手法记录了西班牙画家毕加索（1881—1973）的一次作画过程。1956年盛夏，在法国南部海滨城市尼斯的一间画室里，面对难耐的酷热及聚光灯的强烈辐射，毕加索兴致昂然地挥笔作画：生动的线条在画纸上迅速游走和变形，一朵花先是变成一条鱼，接着变成一个美人，然后变成一只公鸡，最后变成了牧神。本片导演亨利—乔治·克鲁佐（Henri-Georges Clouzot，1907—1977）以拍摄悬疑片著称（据说希区柯克眼中的竞争对手只有一人，他就是克鲁佐），代表作有《乌鸦》（1943）、《恐惧的代价》（1953）等。克鲁佐在拍摄这部美术纪录片时，放弃了当时流行的传记式或说教式拍摄模式。本片虽然也有很多悬念，但不是故事片常见的戏剧性悬念，而是画家的创作过程本身，千变万化的创作过程给观众带来了扣人心弦的感觉。法国电影理论家安德烈·巴赞从这部影片中看到了电影艺术自身的特质，即只有电影能够在瞬间截获并表现时间的流动（巴赞为本片写作了影评《〈毕加索的秘密〉：一部伯格森式的影片》，见安德烈·巴赞《电影是什么》，中国电影出版社1987年版，第204—214页）。本片以独特的方式记录了毕加索创作20余幅画作的详细过程，观看本片成为近距离接触这位绘画大师的最有效途径。本片拍竣后，毕加索将拍片过程中所画的20余幅画悉数毁弃，因此本片显得更加珍贵。此外，本片摄影师克劳德·雷诺阿是著名画家奥古斯特·雷诺阿的孙子、著名电影导演让·雷诺阿的侄子。本片荣获1956年戛纳电影节评委会大奖。

奥赛罗（谢尔盖·邦达尔丘克 Sergei Bondarchuk 饰）是骁勇善战的大将军，元老的女儿苔丝狄蒙娜（伊琳娜·斯科布采娃 Irina Skobtseva 饰）爱上了他，但因为奥赛罗是一名黑人，所以两人的婚事遭到了元老的反对。不愿意就此放弃这段感情的两人决定私定终身，这个秘密被一直嫉妒奥赛罗的旗官伊阿古（安德烈·波波夫 Andrei Popov 饰）给暗中偷听到了，于是伊阿古决定破坏这段姻缘。哪知道伊阿古的捣乱反而促成了这段婚事。
伊阿古并没有善罢甘休，奥戴罗和苔丝狄蒙娜结婚之后，伊阿古通过伪造定情信物的手段开始挑拨这对夫妻之间的感情。占有欲极强的奥赛罗很快就走进了伊阿古设置的圈套之中。

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

火车司机安得利亚出于自已的性格问题，和他的家人闹翻而使家人弃他而去。同时由于他在事业上的失意和与同事之间的误解使得他非常失意，于是他到处流浪，过着靡烂的生活。后来妻子儿女都回到家里，还有他的同事也都原谅了他并与他一同过了一个热闹的圣诞节。当同事们走后，他走进房里，弹起了吉他，脸上露出幸福的表情。但因为以前的生活对他的身体产生了严重的影响，最后他安详的死去了。编剧兼主演的皮特洛杰米透过儿童纯稚的心灵，描述了家庭的悲欢离合及两代之间亲情的流露，是一部极有深度而且富于情感的文艺伦理巨片，主题曲也很受欢迎。

德西卡作品，此片秉承了意大利现实主义精髓，关注战后普通民生，剧情一波三折，演员演技精湛，镜头也十分讲究；一对相爱的小夫妻苦于无地可住（说明蜗居之苦，全世界各年代通用），在遭遇家庭排挤、投奔朋友无解、租房无望后，急中生智，充分利用丈夫的手艺行当，意欲在一夜之间令“江山大改”，虽最后紧急关头屋顶尚留一方空白，但结尾处警察的高抬贵手，给本片留下温馨余味；片名《屋顶》乃本片泉眼，处处着眼，并担当了屋子和家庭的象征。

匈牙利新浪潮代表人物佐尔坦.法布里的代表作。
匈牙利历史上第一部入围戛纳电影节的影片。
根据小说改编，获戛纳金棕榈提名。
一对年轻人在游乐场相遇，他们整夜跳舞，男孩向女孩倾诉了衷肠，谁知却引来令人吃惊的回应...
本片的弥漫的哀伤情绪长久不衰。是匈牙利历史上第一部入围戛纳电影节的影片。

本片被认为是第一部弗拉芒电影，也被认为是第一部比利时电影，曾获得第九届戛纳电影节金棕榈奖提名。故事主角是一个无人知道姓名、也无人知道来历的流浪青年，他总是于深夜时分在街上徘徊，他一直渴望坐船离开，但却因为没有相关证件而无法成行。偶然之间，他认识了一个小女孩，小女孩是战争孤儿，如今在养父母家中过得很不快乐，同样孤独的两个人很快成为了朋友，然而一个心怀不轨的恶徒已经悄悄盯上了小女孩。来源：微博@优杉stardust

Right-handers Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, which will take the alternative are advertised in the poster. The first is an old bullfighter, famous in the past, as now, bitter and full of rancor, lives with Paloma, a woman who is not resigned to continue to be the lover of a man who has fallen into oblivion. Carmona, the Bullfighter of fashion, has a major contract to fight in America, but his wife Isabel wants to reject the offer. Ana Maria, the sister of Carmona, hopes that his brother adopted its relations with Rondeno II; but Carmona was opposed because considers it it a bad Bullfighter