Due to the coronavirus pandemic, on Thursday, March 19, the organizers of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival announced that they would postpone the event to late June or early July.

Recall that the festival was to be held May 12-23. "

The issue of postponing the event was postponed until the last. However, since the disease COVID-19 spread throughout France, its implementation, as well as other mass events, became impossible.

Cannes Film Festival was founded in 1939 as an alternative to the Venice Festival. However, the first festival was canceled immediately after the opening on August 31 and the private screening of the film " After this, the festival was first held in 1946. Also, the festival was not held in 1968 in solidarity with the strike of students and workers in France.

It was reported that on March 19 in France recorded a sharp jump in lethal cases of coronavirus infection. Covid-19 outbreaks impose strict quarantine measures in the country. “We are at war,” said President Emmanuel Macron during a televised address..

On March 18, French police fined more than four thousand people for violating quarantine rules. The fine for those who ignored the requirement to stay at home was 35 euros. The amount may increase to 375 euros.