List of submissions to the 36th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 14 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 36th 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 Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland and Spain.

Italy ultimately won the award for Federico Fellini's .[1]

Poland and the USSR submitted films to the competition for the first time. Pakistan never submitted a film again.

Country Film title used in nomination Language Original title Director IMDB
 France Le Feu Follet French Le Feu Follet Louis Malle [1]
 Greece The Red Lanterns Greek Τα κόκκινα φανάρια Vasilis Georgiadis [2]
 Hong Kong The Love Eterne Mandarin 梁山伯与祝英台 Li Han-hsiang [3]
 India Metropolis Bengali মহানগর Satyajit Ray [4]
 Italy Italian Federico Fellini [5]
 Japan Twin Sisters of Kyoto Japanese 古都 Noboru Nakamura [6]
 Mexico The Paper Man Spanish El hombre de papel Ismael Rodríguez [7]
 Netherlands Like Two Drops of Water Dutch Als twee druppels water Fons Rademakers [8]
 Pakistan The Veil Urdu Ghunghat Khurshid Anwar [9]
 Poland Knife in the Water Polish Nóz w wodzie Roman Polanski [10]
 Spain Los Tarantos Spanish Los Tarantos Francisco Rovira Beleta [11]
 Sweden The Silence Swedish Tystnaden Ingmar Bergman [12]
 Soviet Union My Name is Ivan Russian Иваново детство Andrei Tarkovsky [13]
 Yugoslavia Kozara Serbo-Croatian Козара Veljko Bulajić [14]

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