… min.) The winner of the first Cannes festival award in 1946, this neo-realist film deals with the plight of refugees … (Wolfgang Staudte, Germany: Soviet Zone of Occupation , 1946, 85 min.). This is the first postwar German film … newsreels – Les Portes de la Nuit (Marcel Carné, France, 1946) Scripted by Jacques Prevert and starring Yves Montand, …