Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 60th Academy Awards held in 1988 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
30 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1987 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsLorenzo QuinterosHugo SotoInés VernengoA patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAxel CortiStarsGabriel BarylliNicolas BriegerClaudia MessnerIn the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarion HänselStarsMarianne BaslerThierry FrémontYves CottonNicole is a rape victim. Her son, the result of this tragic event, is cut off, harassed, unloved, ostracized. He develops a neurotic personality, despite attempts to engage his hostile mother in a dialogue of affection and recognition.BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCarlos DieguesTereza GonzalezStarsGuilherme FontesMilton GonçalvesTaumaturgo FerreiraThe young Vinicius is a young saxophone player, from Rio's poor suburbs, facing an uncertain but perhaps promising future. One day his girlfriend suddenly disappears after a night of love under the stars. Day and night, often on the 'Trem' (Rio's subway lines), others with the help of a Detective and his sources, Vinicius discovers the city's underbelly: its low-lives, its victims, its most eccentric characters, and milieus.BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsGilles MaheuRoger LebelCorrado MastropasquaMarcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess...CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJin XieStarsWen JiangLinian LiuXiaoqing LiuLove, humiliation, and politics play out in a distant village of China during the Cultural Revolution.CHINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHumberto SolásStarsCésar ÉvoraRaquel RevueltaDaisy GranadosJavier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas.CUBA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKarel KachynaStarsKarel HermánekRudolf HrusínskýJirí KrampolDuring World War II, Leo Popper, a travel agent traveling across the country to sell vacuum cleaners, loses his job, for the sole fault of being Jewish. When his two sons are sent to the camp, in order to provide them food for the road, the poor father is forced to kill a deer, a being he considered sacred.CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGabriel AxelStarsStéphane AudranBodil KjerBirgitte FederspielDuring the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.DENMARK | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPäivi HartzellStarsSatu SilvoOuti VainionkulmaSebastian KaatrasaloIn this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's longest story, the beautiful Snow Queen has captured two children and now keeps them apart. She has inserted a sliver of her own special ice into the eye of the boy, so that his heart will turn to ice and will be a proper match for hers. The boy's sister, meanwhile, has won free and attempts to find her brother. When she does, the warmth of her love for him melts his frozen heart and defeats the Snow Queen decisively.FINLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLouis MalleStarsGaspard ManesseRaphael FejtöFrancine RacetteA French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.FRANCE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLakis PapastathisStarsDimitris KatalifosStamatis FasoulisDimitris KaberidisThe life and death of Theophilos, the major folk painter of modern Greek art.GREECE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziÁgnes CsereAnna PolonyA continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsThorarinn Oskar ThorarinssonEggert GudmundssonHarald G. HaraldssonTwo friends, who are experienced whale hunters, decide to settle down in Rekyavik at the end of the whaling season. During a night on the town, the duo lands in a heap of trouble after they are thrown out of one establishment after another. As events escalate the two men break into a weapons shop and arm themselves with rifles for a confrontation with the police.ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMani RatnamStarsKamal HaasanSaranya PonvannanDelhi GaneshA common man's struggles against a corrupt police force put him on the wrong side of the law. He becomes a don, who is loved and respected by many, but his growing power and influence exact a heavy toll.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorM.T. RisyafStarsDeddy MizwarNurul ArifinWawan WanisarNaga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.INDONESIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorShmuel ImbermanStarsIka ZoharAnat WaxmanShmuel VilozniISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanFanny ArdantStefania SandrelliWith the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.ITALY | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsKen OgataMitsuko BaishôChun-Hsiung KoA Japanese immigrant in 1901 Hong Kong wishes to become a simple shopkeeper. Fate soon intervenes, allowing him to mix adventure and fervent patriotism with greed.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLuis AlcorizaStarsGonzalo VegaErnesto Gómez CruzMaría RojoCandelario is a wanderer who arrives to Don Lázaro's hacienda. He soon proves to be a good worker full of ideas and gives new life to the decadent hacienda. He also attract the attention of Don Lázaro's wife Chabela.MEXICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsMirjam SternheimPeter TuinmanGeert de JongFor a year, the inhabitants of a house in an Amsterdam working-class neighborhood are followed.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorNils GaupStarsMikkel GaupIngvald GuttormNils UtsiA young Sámi man witnesses a band of vicious raiders slay his family and flees to a nearby village, where he learns he must become a Pathfinder.NORWAY | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFeliks FalkStarsJerzy StuhrMieczyslaw FranaszekKatarzyna KozakFollow up of the "Top Dog" (Wodzirej). Jerzy Stuhr reappears as Ludwik Danielak, smooth-talking hustler with a spreading waistline. He got sacked from his tv job in 1981 and now he is ready for comeback. His idea is the program called "Hero of the Year". His first star is to be Zbigniew Tataj (Mieczyslaw Franaszek), a quiet storekeeper, who saved an apartment building by alerting people about the gas leak. Danielak takes Tataj on a nationwide tour. It becomes clear, however, that he will not be allowed to speak frankly to the people but rather to read a prepared statement instead. Finally, at a hyped-up concert he walks off the stage, leaving Danielak in total surprise.POLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsAvtandil MakharadzeZeinab BotsvadzeIa NinidzeVarlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.SOVIET UNION | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsJesús PuenteVictoria VeraTeresa GimperaA writer is having a midlife crisis. He recollects his life and it makes him feel even worse. Only a love affair or two helps him take his mind off things.SPAIN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKjell GredeStarsStellan SkarsgårdLene BrøndumPia ViethThe life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.SWEDEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorClaude GorettaStarsCharles VanelPhilippe LéotardCatherine MouchetIn a mountainside village, where the sun never shines in winter, the old prophet Anzevui announces that, in this year 1937, war will break out and the sun will never shine again. The village is divided into two camps: those who resign themselves to the news, such as Arlettaz who drowns his sorrow in alcohol, and those who keep the torch of hope alight, such as Cyprien who sets out to find the sun. He returns exhausted but a young girl, Isabelle, takes up his struggle, followed by other villagers who have not lost hope. They will greet the rising sun which the dying Anzevui will never see.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKun-Hou ChenStarsHsiao-Fen LuHsiu-Ling LinSimon YamTi Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Based upon her famous clever hands at embroidery and three-inch lilies, her feet deformed by foot-binding, she is married into a rich family. But fate doesn't change, she becomes a widow at twenty three, and that year her son is only five. In her thirtieth year, she finally defeats all her elders, and becomes the Mistress of a family. But she fails to defeat the love desire, and that year she finds herself pregnant, and the other party is her personal male servant. She faces the challenge of the fate strongly, and then, she wins. This woman lives to the age of seventy five. When she is going to die, she begins to understand the lonely fate of this life seems to be destined when she is born, just as her broken palm lines.TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto SanderAn angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.WEST GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAnica DobraMilorad Mandic-MandaPiano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood, as well as by political oppression in his youth. Decades later, all those traumas lead to carnage.YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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