List of submissions to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 12 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 33rd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from France, Italy, Mexico, Sweden and Yugoslavia. The eventual winner was Ingmar Bergman's revenge drama The Virgin Spring, which represented Sweden.[1]

Brazil submitted a film to the competition for the first time.

Country Film title used in nomination Language Original title Director IMDB
 Brazil Death Commands Brigandage Portuguese A Morte Comanda o Cangaço Carlos Coimbra & Walter Guimarães Motta [1]
 Egypt Teenagers Arabic El morahekate Ahmed Diaeddin [2]
 France La Vérité French La Vérité Henri-Georges Clouzot [3]
 West Germany Faust German Faust Peter Gorski [4]
 Hong Kong The Enchanting Shadow Mandarin 倩女幽魂 Li Han-hsiang [5]
 India The Great Moghul Hindi, Urdu मुग़ल-ए आज़म [2]
[3] مغلِ اعظم		 K. Asif [6]
 Italy Kapò Italian Kapò Gillo Pontecorvo [7]
 Japan Late Autumn Japanese 秋日和 Yasujirō Ozu [8]
 Mexico Macario Spanish Macario Roberto Gavaldón [9]
 Spain At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon Spanish A las cinco de la tarde Juan Antonio Bardem [10]
 Sweden The Virgin Spring Swedish Jungfrukällan Ingmar Bergman [11]
 Yugoslavia The Ninth Circle Serbo-Croatian Deveti krug France Štiglic [12]

References

  1. ^ "The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/33rd-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-10-29. 
  2. ^ Hindi title
  3. ^ Urdu title

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