Powell wrote in his memoirs that Luis Escobar wrote the lead roles for Moira Shearer and Paul Scofield who turned it down . They ended up with Ludmilla Tcherina and Anthony Steel . " Good God ... not Anthony Steel , " wrote Powell , " the archetypal British shit . He was already grooming himself for the part of the English baronet , Sir Stephen in '' The Story of O '' and he brought Anita Ekberg with him too . " At the 1959 Cannes Film Festival , '' Luna de miel '' won the Technical Grand Prize . Also , director Michael Powell was nominated for the Golden Palm Award
1959 Cannes Film Festival
1959 Cannes Film Festival
Honeymoon (1959 film)