Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 64th Academy Awards held in 1992 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
34 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1991 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsMourad BounaasNozha KhouadraPierre-Loup RajotDrama about a young Algerian man who studied in Paris, France. After school he returns to his native country - Algeria. But nobody wants to know him, meet him, nobody understands him nor his mother.ALGERIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJavier TorreStarsNorma AleandroFederico LuppiJorge Mayor"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates.ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVigen ChaldranyanStarsVigen ChaldranyanMarine GhukasyanMichael PoghosianArmenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.ARMENIA | Status: submitted, but not accepted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHouchang AllahyariStarsFereydoun FarrokhzadDolores SchmidingerHanno PöschlAUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsMichel BouquetMireille PerrierJo De BackerThomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorWalter SallesStarsPeter CoyoteTchéky KaryoAmanda PaysAn American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models.BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDocho BodzhakovStarsLyuben ChatalovVania TzvetkovaPetar PopyordanovThis is a picture of some horrible events in Bulgaria after the WW2, when as if in the name of the future dictatorship, rules came.BULGARIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAttila BertalanStarsKathy HornerAndrew CampbellJan StychalskyA civilian and a soldier become unlikely allies in this allegorical examination of friendship and the evils of war. Filmed in Quebec, Canada.CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRicardo LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasGloria LasoAlonso VenegasA high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.CHILE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJianzhong HuangStarsBaotian LiLirong ZhaoJiali DingA story of a family's dilemma between different family member especially between 2 generations which erupted on "chu xi" (the day before the first day in Chinese lunar year).CHINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJaime Osorio GómezStarsVicky HernándezGustavo LondoñoMaría Cristina GálvezThe action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous "Bogotazo". It is a story of love frustrated by political circumstances. Laura, a spinster schoolteacher, lives to Josefina and Santiago, public employee. The three characters will be besieged by 24 hours, targeted by snipers, will be forced to show such which are or they would have liked to be.COLOMBIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsZdenka AnusicEtta BortolazziVanja DrachA young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.CROATIA | Status: submitted, but not accepted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFernando PérezStarsLaura De la UzRaúl PazHerminia SánchezA young girl's academic asperation conflict with her family's struggle against poverty. Both these aspects are made all the more potent by the clear view they have of Ernest Hemingway's mansion in their home town just outside Havana.CUBA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJan SverákStarsJan TrískaZdenek SverákLibuse SafránkováThe time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women.CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorStellan OlssonStarsErik ClausenNina GunkeBenjamin Rothenborg VibeCopenhagen 1930. Through the eyes of a boy, his family and the outside world is depicted. A well knit, working class family. The boy has great expectations on his father. This leads to the involuntary unmasking of the father.DENMARK | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJacques DutroncAlexandra LondonBernard Le CoqThe final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.FRANCE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiJingwu MaSaifei HeChina in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.HONG KONG | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJános RózsaStarsCsaba ÚjváriBernadett VisyZsolt GazdagBudapest, 1989. A group of teenagers is wandering around in the city. They are bored, want to go away, their parents do not care about them. They make their living from breaking cars and stealing. Fugitives, relatives from Transsylvania arrive to Zoli's family. The guys welcome Rita, the young girl in their gang. All of them gets caught by the purity and beauty of the girl, they fall in love and become jealous...HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsGísli HalldórssonSigríður HagalínBaldvin HalldórssonOld Thorgeir must leave his home far off in the Icelandic 'countryside' and move into a home for senior citizens in Reykjavik. There he meets an old friend from his childhood, Stella. Thorgeir soon becomes unhappy living there and together with Stella he steals a jeep. Together they leave the city for Stella's old home in northwestern Iceland. A drama who asks us: how important is it to have a long life if you have to leave everything that has a meaning for you?ICELAND | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRandhir KapoorStarsRishi KapoorZeba BakhtiarAshwini BhaveOrphan Chander Prakash is employed as a menial laborer in a timber mart; he meets with wealthy Chandni only to fall in love with her and the marriage is arranged with the blessings of Chandni's parents. Unfortunately on the day of the marriage Chander meets with a vehicle accident and is believe to be dead but in reality he is rescued from drowning by a gypsy, Henna Khan who reside in Jhelum, Pakistan with her widowed father, Khan Baba; three brothers Ashraf, Razzak and Zaman along with Razzak's wife Najma. Chander is nurse by Henna and the village doctor, Bibi Gul until his health improve and he is able to use his legs to move around. Unfortunately Chander suffers from memory loss and is able to retain only the word, 'Chand' short for Chandni so much that Henna and her loved ones starts to call him Chand. Meanwhile Henna starts to fall in love with Chand and their marriage are arranged only to invite the wrath of police officer Shahbaaz Khan who himself has already marry twice and now wants to marry Henna as the Shariat law state that an individual can marry four times. Ironically on the day of Chand and Henna wedding he manages to regain his memory and confesses his Hindu identity to the community thus Khan Baba decides to make all arrangements to send him back to Hindustan. Before Chand can cross the Pakistan border he is apprehend by Shahbaaz Khan only to prove to be a traitor send down by the Indian Government to spy on the Pakistanis.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJacob GoldwasserStarsUri AlterAryeh MoskonaDafna RechterISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.ITALY | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsSachiko MuraseRichard GereHisashi IgawaThree generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.JAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorStole PopovStarsMeto JovanovskiLjiljana MedjesiStojan 'Stole' ArandjelovicAfter a quarrel with his wife, a man leaves their apartment with one suitcase only. Having slept in a train station, the police legitimates him and found him suspicious. Soon he'll find himself locked in a prison with several other, mostly innocent people. The true horror begins only then.MACEDONIA | Status: submitted, but not accepted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsMaría RojoJosé AlonsoA middle agend woman asks an old boyfriend to her home. He thinks its only for casual sex, she is planning something else and she is taping in on video.MEXICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHarry KümelStarsMarianne BaslerMonique van de VenJohan LeysenEline Vere is a neurotic young woman with a turbulent family.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBerit NesheimStarsMaria KvalheimEllen HornHelge JordalFrida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAlberto DurantStarsGermán GonzálezElsa OliveroOrlando SachaThe escapades of the real life criminal "La Gringa"PERU | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsIrène JacobWladyslaw KowalskiHalina GryglaszewskaTwo parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.POLEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPedro CostaStarsPedro HestnesNuno FerreiraInês de MedeirosVicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It's their secret. Clara, the primary school assistant, is fascinatingly beautiful, and secretive, and (may be) she knows it aswel. There are other secrets, though: the origin of the money that appears at Vicente's house; the relationship between Vicente's well-to-do uncle and his girlfriend; the relationship between the four people who once played the cards together, and now can't stand each other.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMiran ZupanicStarsBorut VeselkoFaruk BegolliHaris BurinaAn immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassia Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale.SLOVENIA | Status: submitted, but not accepted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsOtar MegvinetukhutsesiElena AnisimovaTamari SkhirtladzeIn Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as the local authorities come under pressure to fall in line with the officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist Government. The village elder is one of our hero's best friends and together they seem to find a way to outwit these evil intentions but unfortunately they fail to understand what forces they are dealing with in a country where anti-Semitism is state policy.SOVIET UNION | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsVictoria AbrilMarisa ParedesMiguel BoséA singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.SPAIN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSven NykvistStarsStellan SkarsgårdEwa FrölingErland JosephsonSwedish pauper's family is starving. In desperation, he steals his lord's ox. He hopes that the crime will not be revealed, but it happens.SWEDEN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarkus ImhoofStarsSusanne LotharMathias GnädingerPeter SimonischekSince 1886, there has been a weather-station master at the summit of the mountain. He telegraphs his daily measurements into the valley from where they are transmitted to Rome, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEdward YangStarsChang ChenLisa YangKuo-Chu ChangBased on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsAnthony AndrewsVladimir IlinElena MayorovaA political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.UNITED KINGDOM | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLuis Alberto LamataStarsCosme CortázarFrancis RuedaAlexander MilicAt early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return.VENEZUELA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorDragan KresojaStarsLazar RistovskiDragan NikolicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicThe plot lasts from 1945 until today's day. Pavle, Stojan and Dragisa, the three war friends are taking different positions within the society immediately after the war. Pavle, a former war commissar, is now a school teacher. Thanks to him, Stojan, who was a bakery assistant before the war, does the job of a district committee's secretary, while Dragisa works in the state's secret police. The reason of conflict between Pavle and Stojan in 1947 was Stojan's fiancée Lena, who loves Pavle, marries him and gets pregnant, right when Pavle is taken to the state prison. Stojan accepts his wife and kid again, but the avalanche of political events will make all them unable to stop the inevitable catastrophe.YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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