Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards held in 1990 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
37 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1989 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorJeanine MeerapfelStarsLiv UllmannCipe LincovskyFederico LuppiMaría and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos.ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHugo ClausStarsAnn PetersenCarl RiddersJan DecleirThe Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsMarília PêraPaulo JoséZezé MottaEarning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLudmil StaikovStarsRousy ChanevIvan KrystevAnya PenchevaIn the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.BULGARIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorIdrissa OuedraogoStarsFatimata SangaNoufou OuédraogoRoukietou BarryA small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.BURKINA FASO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.CANADA | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorQiankuan LiGuiyun XiaoStarsYue GuFazeng GuoKai HuangIn the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.CHINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorOrlando RojasStarsLuisa Pérez-NietoErnesto TapiaRosita FornésAn aging actress gets trapped in the generational conflicts and political scheming of a well-known but decaying theater company and loses her career and the hope of ever loving again. Selected one of the 100 Best Latin American Films of All Times (#29), Poll of Latin American Critics (1996). Cuban entry as Best Foreign Film for Oscars, 1990. Chosen as Best Cuban Film of the decade of 1980's by National Critics Association,CUBA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVera ChytilováStarsTomás HanákMilan SteindlerDavid VávraTwo friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsFrits HelmuthMikael HelmuthGhita NørbyThe active Regitze and passive Karl Aage have a party with friends and family at their allotment garden. He reminisces his life with her from meeting her during WWII, having a son, the son graduating, etc. up to present day.DENMARK | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBruno NuyttenStarsIsabelle AdjaniGérard DepardieuMadeleine RobinsonCamille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.FRANCE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsMichalis ZekeTania PalaiologouStratos TzortzoglouTwo children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.GREECE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAlex LawStarsSammo Kam-Bo HungChing-Ying LamPei-Pei ChengThe story of Beijing Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students.HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsDorota SegdaOleg YankovskiyPaulus MankerTwo twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGuðný HalldórsdóttirStarsSigurður SigurjónssonBaldvin HalldórssonMargrét Helga JóhannsdóttirA hapless guy from the city visits an isolated Icelandic seaside settlement. He gradually realizes that the seals are not what they seem, and that two of the inhabitants are magicians, vieing for the favour of a mysterious woman. Liberated from a spell, she proves to be a magician too. Then he falls in love....ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVidhu Vinod ChopraStarsJackie ShroffAnil KapoorNana PatekarA man's friend, a police officer, is assassinated by gangsters in broad daylight. He discovers that his elder brother works in the same gang and decides to avenge his friend's death by infiltrating the gang.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEros DjarotStarsPitradjaya BurnamaChristine HakimRudy WoworTjoet Nja' Dhien assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Umar is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch in Aceh in 1896.INDONESIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorUri BarbashStarsAlon AboutboulSharon AlexanderYoel Ben-SimhonA few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military despatch an investigator to the camp to see if there was cold blooded murder (people at the camp had claimed he was shot while trying to escape). It turns out that the investigator despatched is a friend of the camp commander - the rest of the plot is basically about the position of both of these characters as regards being honest or faithful to ones friends. There is unbearable tension, increased by the fact that they are both very strongly attracted to one of the female soldiers on the camp.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.ITALY | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsRentarô MikuniYoshiko MitaTsutomu YamazakiLegendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrans WeiszStarsKitty CourboisPeter OosthoekCatherine ten BruggencateNico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that Leo's mother died in a concentration camp keeps coming to the forefront.NETHERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMartin AsphaugStarsEspen SkjønbergNicolay Lange-NielsenCamilla Strøm HenriksenGothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLeszek WosiewiczStarsAdam KamienMarcin TronskiPiotr SkibaA young musician uses his talent as an accordion player to fight for dignity and survival in the Auschwitz concentration camp.POLEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraLeonor SilveiraDiogo DóriaA drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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