Best Foreign Film Oscar longlist announced
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a record 63 films are on the initial longlist for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. The full list is here, and these are the Central and Eastern European submissions:
- Azerbaijan: Caucasia (d. Farid Gumbatov)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: It’s Hard to Be Nice/Teško je biti fin (d. Srđan Vuletić) - IMDB/Variety
- Bulgaria: Warden of the Dead/Пазачът на мъртвите (d. Ilian Simeonov) - IMDB/Variety
- Croatia: Armin (d. Ognjen Sviličić) - IMDB/Website/Variety
- Czech Republic: I Served the King of England/Obsluhoval jsem Anglického krále (d.Jiří Menzel) - IMDB/Website/Variety
- Estonia: The Class/Klass (d. Ilmar Raag) - IMDB/Website/Variety
- Georgia: The Russian Triangle/Русский треугольник (d. Aleko Tsabadze) - IMDB/Website
- Hungary: Taxidermia (d. György Pálfi) - IMDB/Website/Trailer/Variety
- Macedonia: Shadows/Senki (d. Milcho Manchevski) - IMDB/Trailer/Variety
- Poland: Katyń (d. Andrzej Wajda) - IMDB/Website/Trailer
- Romania: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days/4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (d. Cristian Mungiu) - IMDB/Website/Clip/Variety
- Russia, 12 (d. Nikita Mikhalkov) - IMDB/Variety
- Serbia: The Trap/Klopka (d. Srdan Golubović) - IMDB/Website/Variety
- Slovakia: Return of the Storks/Návrat bocianov (d. Martin Repka) - IMDB/Trailer
- Slovenia: Short Circuits/Kratki stiki (d. Janez Lapajne) - IMDB /Website/Variety
Posted on 18th October 2007
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