This is a list of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country.
For the 41st Academy Awards, eighteen films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles five nominated films came from Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union won for the first time with the 4-part epic film War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk. Becoming the longest feature film to ever win an Academy Award. The win took place during the peak of the Cold War, drawing worldwide attention.
Submissions Submitting country Film title used in nomination Original title Language(s) Director(s) Result The Amorous Ones As Amorosas Brazilian Portuguese Walter Hugo Khouri The Firemen's Ball Horí, má panenko Czech Miloš Forman People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart Människor möts och ljuv musik uppstår i hjärtat Danish Henning Carlsen Stolen Kisses Baisers volés French François Truffaut Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos German Alexander Kluge Imperiale Βυζαντινή Ραψωδία Greek Giorgos Skalenakis The Boys of Paul Street A Pál-utcai fiúk Hungarian Zoltán Fábri Elder Sister मझली दीदी Hindi Hrishikesh Mukherjee Every Bastard a King כל ממזר מלך Hebrew Uri Zohar The Girl with the Pistol La ragazza con la pistola Italian Mario Monicelli The Sands of Kurobe 黒部の太陽 JapaneseKei Kumai Matthew's Days Zywot Mateusza Polish Witold Leszczyński The Column Columna Romanian Mircea Drăgan War and Peace Война и мир Russian Sergei Bondarchuk Descendants of Cain 카인의 후예 Korean Yu Hyun-mok Spain Again España otra vez Spanish Jaime Camino Shame Skammen Swedish Ingmar Bergman It Rains in My Village Biće skoro propast sveta Serbo-Croatian Aleksandar Petrović
References
Sources Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences