Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards held in 1970 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
24 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1969 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandIrene PapasJean-Louis TrintignantThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.ALGERIA | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGeorg LhotzkyStarsFritz MuliarErika PluharLouis RiesHostile literary friends Petrik (young, idealistic, unsuccessful) and Mehlmann (enterprising, successful) spend a weekend at a crumbling baroque castle in the Marchfeld, illustrating very different ideas of a post-war Austria.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEmile DegelinStarsUmberto BettencourtChristie DermieMarion Hänsel"Palaver" tells us the day of three Congolese students (Albert, Victor and Marcel) who visit Bruges for a tour of the city, and end up on the beaches of Ostend. During their trip, they cross a beautiful blond on the arm of an equally superb African.BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGlauber RochaStarsMaurício do ValleOdete LaraOthon BastosIn this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJuraj HerzStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlasta ChramostováJana StehnováSet in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLene GrønlykkeSven GrønlykkeStarsJesper KleinPaul HüttelInge BaaringThe warmhearted but rather naive Carl Henning (Jesper Klein) is an 18 y.o. dairy apprentice. He takes the run after a nightly fight with his employer (John Wittig), and is soon introduced to society's darker sides.DENMARK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianMarie-Christine BarraultA devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.FRANCE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVasilis GeorgiadisStarsGiannis VoglisAnne LonnbergKostas BakasA shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.GREECE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorShu Shuen TongStarsLisa LuRoy ChiaoHilda Chow HsuanA woman falls in love with a visiting cavalry captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter.HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSándor SáraStarsLajos BalázsovitsNadesda KazassianTodor TodorovAn aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorA.C. TrilogchanderStarsShivaji GanesanJayalalitha JPandari BaiThe story is about a father and his sons--all three roles played by Sivaji Ganesan. One son who had disappeared shortly after his birth reappears, spends time with his father, and solves the remaining problem of the family. The father tells his wife he has the perfect gift for her birthday and presents the long-lost son. At the end the long-lost son tragically dies in front of his brother and parents after saving them from the Goons.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGilberto TofanoStarsEran AgmonGila AlmagorYael AvivStory of a war-widow pressured by her friends to behave in the role of the heroic widow, and the journey she takes in a country of people under siege.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.ITALY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsRentarô MikuniChôichirô KawarasakiHideko OkiyamaAn engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHarry KümelStarsEllen VogelHilde UitterlindenJoan RemmeltsMeriora Gillibrand (Ellen Vogel) disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorArmando Robles GodoyStarsJulio AlemánSandra RivaRaúl MartinA young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.PERU | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBeata TyszkiewiczElzbieta CzyzewskaAndrzej LapickiThe disappearance of the leading actor from the film's set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor's wife and mistress.POLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGheorghe VitanidisStarsIrina PetrescuIurie DarieVirgil OgãsanuA doctor falls in love with a hospital nurse.ROMANIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHa Won ChoiStarsHae HwangYun Jeong-hieWon NamkungA lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former boyfriend finds her and takes a job working with the potter until he can convince her to run away with him.SOUTH KOREA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKirill LavrovIvan PyrevMikhail UlyanovStarsMikhail UlyanovLionella PyryevaKirill LavrovThree brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.SOVIET UNION | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCésar Fernández ArdavínStarsJulián MateosElisa RamírezAmelia de la TorreIn the last years of the Middle Ages, the Corpus Christi procession takes place in the Spanish city of Toledo. There, the young Calixto meets the beautiful lady Melibea, and he falls in love immediately, trying to court her, but getting only the rejection of the young woman. Determined to make her his mistress, Calixto chases her wherever she goes, thus causing "incidental" encounters. Then the lover decides to follow the advice of his servant Sempronius and go to an old bawd called Celestina, who, with the help of her evil arts and tips, bow down Melibea's will and causes tragic consequences for everyone.SPAIN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBo WiderbergStarsPeter SchildtKerstin TideliusRoland HedlundDuring a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire and five people are killed and five injured.SWEDEN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsMartin SperrAngela WinklerElse QueckeAbram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.WEST GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.YUGOSLAVIA | Status: nominated
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