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.

Submissions[]

Submitting country	Film title used in nomination	Language(s)	Original title	Director(s)	Result
Brazil	Death Commands Brigandage	Portuguese	A Morte Comanda o Cangaço	Carlos Coimbra &	Not nominated
Egypt	Teenagers	Arabic	El morahekate	Ahmed Diaeddin	Not nominated
France	La Vérité	French	La Vérité	Henri-Georges Clouzot	Nominated
West Germany	Faust	German	Faust	Peter Gorski	Not nominated
Hong Kong	The Enchanting Shadow	Mandarin	倩女幽魂	Li Han-hsiang	Not nominated
India	The Great Moghul	Hindi, Urdu	मुग़ल-ए आज़म (مغلِ اعظم)	K. Asif	Not nominated
Italy	Kapò	Italian	Kapò	Gillo Pontecorvo	Nominated
Japan	Late Autumn	Japanese	秋日和	Yasujirō Ozu	Not nominated
Mexico	Macario	Spanish	Macario	Roberto Gavaldón	Nominated
Spain	At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon	Spanish	A las cinco de la tarde	Juan Antonio Bardem	Not nominated
Sweden	The Virgin Spring	Swedish	Jungfrukällan	Ingmar Bergman	Won Academy Award
Yugoslavia	The Ninth Circle	Serbo-Croatian	Deveti krug	France Štiglic	Nominated

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Sources[]

• Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences