Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 53rd Academy Awards held in 1981 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
26 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 1980 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR!
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- DirectorHerbert VeselyStarsMathieu CarrièreJane BirkinChristine KaufmannThe life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorHector BabencoStarsFernando Ramos da SilvaJorge JuliãoGilberto MouraThe life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.
- DirectorDaniel KamwaStarsNicole OkalaDaniel KamwaStanislas AwonaCAMEROON | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsCharlotte LaurierMarie TifoGermain HoudeA woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.CANADA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGustavo Nieto RoaStarsCarlos BenjumeaFranky LineroDanielCOLOMBIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorKarel KachynaStarsEduard CupákVladimír MensíkLukás VaculíkKarel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera (Zlata Adamovská) out of home; he did not like her relationship with a married man. The competition of Bata factory was unsurpassable for a minor craftsman Bursík and his neighbours owed him for minor services. The desperate Bursík sent Kajda to sell his mother's dresses to get money for food. In a second-hand shop, Kajda met his first love.CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGünter ReischGünther RückerStarsJutta WachowiakRegimantas AdomaitisSlávka BudínováThe wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to 10 years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancé enables her to survive the tribulations of her time in prison, where she is one of few political prisoners.EAST GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsAsko SarkolaRea MauranenKari FranckThe life of early-20th-century author, journalist, and revolutionary Algot Untola (also known as Maiju Lassila, Irmari Rantamala, and several more pseudonyms), one of the most enigmatic figures in Finnish literature. Different time levels are mixed in the film to give it an equally enigmatic structure. Untola lives periods of his life in the Finnish countryside as a teacher, then in St. Petersburg as a businessman; he also becomes a Socialist, then dies during the Finnish Civil War in 1918.FINLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveGérard DepardieuJean PoiretIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.FRANCE | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorIstván SzabóStarsIldikó BánságiPéter AndoraiOszkárné GombikDuring WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.HUNGARY | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorÁgúst GuðmundssonStarsSigurður SigurjónssonJón SigurbjörnssonJónas TryggvasonAn Icelandic farmer's son has to move from his farm during the depression. He leaves everything to start a new life elsewhere. Set in the crisis years, it describes tension between the farms and cities.ICELAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorSatyen BoseStarsAlankar JoshiKomal MahuvakarSurinder KaurA girl who is passionate about dance is ill treated by her relatives. She runs away from home to pursue her dream and overcomes many obstacles to become an accomplished dancer.INDIA | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMichal Bat-AdamStarsGila AlmagorAlexander PelegLiat PanskyExplores the relationship between an eleven-year-old girl and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMichel PiccoliAnouk AiméeMichele PlacidoMauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested...ITALY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTsutomu YamazakiKen'ichi HagiwaraA petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.JAPAN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorMarja KokErik van ZuylenStarsHelmert WoudenbergFrank GroothofHans Man in 't VeldAn unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorPetter VennerødSvend WamStarsBjørn SkagestadKjersti DøvigenAudun MelingWhen a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.NORWAY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorAndrzej KotkowskiStarsMariusz BenoitJerzy BonczakTadeusz GaliaClandestine Olympics are to be held in a German POW camp during World War II which houses many Poles, but also French and British. A spit and polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of the camp. He recognizes one of the Poles, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, as an athlete against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out that he is a prisoner and nothing more, but that plants a seed and the Pole proposes an Olympics 40 to be held among the prisoners. They ingeniously make a flag and medals, set up a number of races; a crouching hop race is unwittingly organized by a German prison guard who uses it as a form of torture. The German lieutenant knows that something is going on but cannot figure it out. Finally the Germans realize what's going on and the Polish leader is sent to a concentration camp, but the others disobey the orders.POLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorLauro AntónioStarsEunice MuñozVergílio FerreiraCanto e CastroEstefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAleksey BatalovIrina MuravyovaThree young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.SOVIET UNION | Status: won
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJaime de ArmiñánStarsHéctor AlterioAna TorrentLuis PolittiIn a town near Salamanca, an eccentric 60-year-old widower is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13-year-old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita), the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Although he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.SPAIN | Status: nominated
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorRalf LångbackaStarsLasse PöystiPekka LaihoArja SaijonmaaSWEDEN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsIsabelle HuppertJacques DutroncNathalie BayeAn examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorChu-Chin WangStarsKuo-Hsiung FanChiang HanTerry HuTAIWAN | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorWolf GremmStarsHans Peter HallwachsHermann LauseSilvia JanischNovel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.WEST GERMANY | Status: submitted
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[white]......................................................./white] - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLjuba TadicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicDusica ZegaracDr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace. The events that followed reveal that the doctor used his own way of treatment in order to express his own essentially despotic and hypocritical personality.YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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