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20th Venice International Film Festival

1959 film festival edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3324995 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 20th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 6 September 1959.

Italian film critic Luigi Chiarini was the Jury President for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to The Great War directed by Mario Monicelli and General della Rovere directed by Roberto Rossellini.

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The public source identifies “20th Venice International Film Festival” as 1959 film festival edition. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 20th, Venice and International.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with 20th, Venice and International providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3324995. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “20th Venice International Film Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.