Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 61st Academy Awards held in 1989 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
31 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1988 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorMiguel PereiraStarsLeopoldo AbanJuan José CameroGuillermo DelgadoA rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán, a small Andean village. Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his students, Verónico Cruz, is called for a Fight, running a Join the crew of the ARA General Belgrano, sunk on May 2, 1982.ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLuc BondyStarsMichel PiccoliBulle OgierWolfgang HübschA promising young pianist commits suicide. He spent his last evening in the company of the industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter. His wife Genia is in possession of a farewell note.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGérard CorbiauStarsJosé van DamAnne RousselPhilippe VolterAging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three. Based on their teacher's reputation, Sophie and Jean are invited to participate in a singing contest staged by Prince Scotti. Scotti's protege is set up to get revenge for Scotti's defeat at the hands of Dallayrac in a similar competition many years ago. The young students overcome Scotti's trickery to win the competition.BELGIUM | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBruno BarretoStarsBetty FariaDaniel FilhoBrandão FilhoFausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land and build a house. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsStoyan AleksievGeorgi KaloyanchevKaterina EvroThis is a philosophical, eccentric and fantastic comedy. This is a fantastic escape from the reality and a dream-rebellion of the fantasy.BULGARIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsMonique SpazianiGabriel ArcandMiou-MiouA quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiWen JiangRujun TengWhen a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.CHINA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsVíctor LaplaceIvonne López ArenalMiguel PanekeMatanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with the one who wrote the letters.CUBA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.DENMARK | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAgliberto MeléndezStarsÁngel MuñizCarlos Alfredo FatuleHoracio VelozA fictional retelling of the Regina Express tragedy, in which 22 Dominican stowaways died from suffocation in an attempt of illegal travel in September 1981.DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMichel DevilleStarsMiou-MiouChristian RuchéSylvie LaporteA multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..."FRANCE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGiorgos KarypidisStarsGiorgos KonstasMakis ArvanitakisTasos GoudelisA music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters and a stranger, he becomes panic-stricken. The unjust charge brought against him ignites his deeper feelings of guilt which stem from his sterile existence and, mainly, from his inability to produce creative work. Then he flees and begins wandering in an unfamiliar "country" where his painful adventures will finally prove redeeming. The film is an existential drama in the form of a "dreamlike" thriller.GREECE | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerErland JosephsonIldikó BánságiA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?HUNGARY | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHrafn GunnlaugssonStarsReine BrynolfssonTinna GunnlaugsdóttirEgill ÓlafssonTrausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMira NairStarsShafiq SyedAnjaanAmrit PatelYoung Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.INDIA | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorEli CohenStarsGila AlmagorKaipu CohenEli CohenA ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsRutger HauerAnthony QuayleSandrine DumasAn alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.ITALY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorYôji YamadaStarsHiroko YakushimaruHashinosuke NakamuraToshirô YanagibaJAPAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorServando GonzálezStarsDavid ReynosoGerardo ZepedaEnrique LuceroMEXICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted, but disqualified
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRamiro Lacayo-DeshonStarsElmer MacfieldAlenka DíazManuel PovedaIn this political thriller, Reynaldo, a young dancer from a resort area on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, deserts his career to join his nation's fight against the American-backed Contras. Wartime footage is interspersed with dance scenes, including one notable break-dancing demonstration at a discotheque. Despite its heavy political theme, this Spanish-language war drama also features a romantic subplot.NICARAGUA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPer BlomStarsLine StoresundHilde Nyeggen MartinsenMerete MoenA couple of twelve-year-old Norwegian girls struggle with their intense, taboo relationship during the 1930s.NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsGustavo BuenoToño VegaJosé TejadaThe Peruvian anti-terrorist army takes control of a far away and unknown small village isolated in the Andes by the terrorist militia "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), during the dirty war in Peru at 80's decade.PERU | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaOlaf LubaszenkoStefania IwinskaA naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.POLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsHenrique VianaJúlia BrittonEunice MuñozA film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarcos ZurinagaStarsRaul JuliaValeria LynchRubén JuárezA fled Tango show owner returns to Buenos Aires to join his partners after the oppressive government of Argentina has dissolved.PUERTO RICO | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAleksandr AskoldovStarsNonna MordyukovaRolan BykovRaisa NedashkovskayaKlavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.SOVIET UNION | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta SerranoA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.SPAIN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJean-François AmiguetStarsJérôme AngerKristin Scott ThomasSylvie OrcierLiving single in an old house, 'La Méridienne', François asks his friends, Mary and Martha, to help him find love. He decides to hire Dubois, a detective in charge of watching over him. During his spinning, falls in love with Marie.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKun-Hou ChenStarsSylvia ChangTony Ka Fai LeungChieh-mei YangThe hostess of a tea house bought a girl for touting, but her virtuous son releases the girl.TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHark BohmStarsAyse RomeyUwe BohmSener Sen20-year-old Casanova Jan falls in love with 17-year-old Turkish girl Yasemin, who lives in Germany with her family. She's well-protected by her father, who believes in the Turkish traditions. She must struggle for every little freedom that her German friends might take for granted, but she still respects and loves her father and keeps the appearance of an honorable Turkish girl, but her love for Jan disturbs this fine balance. So it's not hate or quarrel that interferes with their love, but the differences of their cultures.WEST GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKrsto PapicStarsDavor JanjicAlma PricaMiodrag KrivokapicIt's the end of the 1980s, and Martin is being asked from his dying uncle Stipan to bury him with the presence of priest. Martin remembers the way they lost the contact in 1951 - Stipan informed on him when he wrote a composition in the school, expressing doubts about the land reform. He had got a bullet in the groin by accident; his pregnant wife fled to Trieste and then to Australia where she gave a birth to their son John.YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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