At the Cannes Film Festival, held on the 8th - 23rd May 1969, "Michael Kohlhaas" was one of the 26 official nominations for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: the Palme D’Or.

In this year, the competition was won by an equally dystopian film, "If", directed by Lindsay Anderson.

In 17 July 1967, "The Machine Stops" won the first prize at the Fifth Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza (International Science Fiction Film Festival) in Trieste. This was the first time the BBC had entered for the Festival.

From “The Times” the following day:

Trieste as a port for science-fiction films… Science-fiction film - or ( Read more... )