おくりびと
2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Yojiro Takita
When his Tokyo orchestra disbands, cellist Daigo Kobayashi returns to his home town. Looking for a job he applies to work for a travel agency but instead finds himself working for an undertaker preparing corpses for cremation.
Previous Winners
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2007 Winner : The Counterfeiters
Stefan Ruzowitzky
The story of a Jewish counterfeiter forced to forge Allied currencies for the Nazis. He faces the moral dilemma of whether to work on a project that could lengthen the war, or resist and risk death.
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2006 Winner : The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Set in East Berlin in 1984, Stasi officer Captain Gerd Wiesler is tasked with investigating a playwright and his actress girlfriend. The film follows the intimate relationship that develops between the playwright and his secret observer.
This Years Nominees
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Waltz with Bashir (אלס עם באשיר)
Ari Folman
This stunning animated documentary tells the story of Ari Folman. Who at 19 fought in the Israeli infantry during their 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It vividly shows his struggle to understand what happened during the war.
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Revanche
Gotz Spielmann
Alex works for a brothel owner in Vienna but is in a relationship with Tamara who works as a prostitute at the brothel. When a bank robbery goes wrong they try to escape to the country but instead become involved with a local policeman and his wife.
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The Class (Entre les murs)
Laurent Cantet
The semi-autobiographical story of a literature teacher working in a tough inner city school in Paris. The film shows the culture clash between the teacher and his pupils and how this relates to contempory French society.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Uli Edel
The film retells the early years of the Red Army Faction. Based on an award winning book it traces the history of the RAF from its beginnings in the German student movement in 1967 to its violent climax in 1977.