List of submissions to the 55th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 25 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 55th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The bolded titles were the five nominated films, which came from France, Nicaragua, Sweden, the USSR and the eventual winner, Begin the Beguine, from Spain.

Nicaragua submitted a film for the first time. Switzerland was allowed to submit Yol, a film in Turkish by a pair of Turkish directors. The film had been banned for political content at home, and was smuggled into Switzerland and edited in Paris.

Submissions

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Algeria	Sandstorm	French	Vent de sable	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Not Nominated
Argentina	Last Days of the Victim	Spanish	Últimos días de la víctima	Adolfo Aristarain	Not Nominated
Belgium	Minuet	Dutch	Menuet	Lili Rademakers	Not Nominated
Bulgaria	Khan Asparoukh	Bulgarian	Хан Аспарух	Ludmil Staikov	Not Nominated
Canada	Wild Flowers	French	Les fleurs sauvages	Jean Pierre Lefebvre	Not Nominated
Czechoslovakia	The Assistant	Slovak	Pomocnik	Zoro Zahon	Not Nominated
Denmark	Tree of Knowledge	Danish	Kundskabens træ	Nils Malmros	Not Nominated
France	Clean Slate	French	Coup de Torchon	Bertrand Tavernier	Nominated
West Germany	Fitzcarraldo	German	Fitzcarraldo	Werner Herzog	Not Nominated
Greece	Angel	Greek	Ангел	Giorgos Katakouzinos	Not Nominated
Hungary	Time Stands Still	Hungarian	Megáll az idö	Péter Gothár	Not Nominated
Iceland	Inter Nos	Icelandic	Okkar á milli: Í hita og þunga dagsins	Hrafn Gunnlaugsson	Not Nominated
Israel	Hamsin	Hebrew, Arabic	חמסין	Daniel Wachsmann	Not Nominated
Italy	The Night of the Shooting Stars	Italian	La Notte di San Lorenzo	Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani	Not Nominated
Japan	Onimasa	Japanese	鬼龍院花子の生涯	Hideo Gosha	Not Nominated
Netherlands	The Cool Lakes of Death	Dutch	Van de koele meren des doods	Nouchka van Brakel	Not Nominated
Nicaragua	Alsino and the Condor	Spanish	Alsino y el cóndor	Miguel Littín	Nominated
Norway	Victoria L	Norwegian	Leve sitt liv	Petter Vennerød and Svend Wam	Not Nominated
Portugal	Francisca	Portuguese	Francisca	Manoel de Oliveira	Not Nominated
Spain	Begin the Beguine	Spanish	Volver a empezar	José Luis Garci	Won Academy Award
Sweden	The Flight of the Eagle	Swedish	Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd	Jan Troell	Nominated
Switzerland	Yol	Turkish	Yol	Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney	Not Nominated
Taiwan	The Battle for the Republic of China	Chinese	辛亥双十	Ding Shan Xi	Not Nominated
Soviet Union	Private Life	Russian	Частная жизнь	Yuli Raizman	Nominated
Yugoslavia	The Smell of Quinces	Bosnian	Miris dunja	Mirza Idrizović	Not Nominated