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Poll Suggestion: If One Movie Could Introduce Your Country


I asked IMDb Poll Board members to give me one movie they think is the best to introduce their country, This is the final list, Which one is your favorite?

List: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls062955391/

Note:
Please check the list below ⬇ to see if your movie is already on the list .. if so please chose another one ..
The movie can be from another country not your country as long as the story of that movie talks about your country
I want to finish the list before they close IMDb Poll board so can you please share this and contribute as possible as you can .. Thank you.

Give me the name of the movie and the name of your country:

La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
In Bruges (2008)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Ronja Rövardotter (1984)
Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue (2000)
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
Inception (2010)
3 Idiots (2009)
Idioterne (1998)
Los olvidados (1950)
Mars na Drinu (1964)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Pappa ante Portas (1991)
Ha-Shoter Azulai (1971)
A Wednesday (2008)
Laskar Pelangi (2008)




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FYC:

Waterloo (1970) - Belgium

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Really? Why not In Bruges?

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In Bruges was also my first idea. But then I was thinking that Bruges is only the setting of the movie. It doesn't really tell you a lot about Belgium, nor does it talk about the history of the country.

Waterloo on the other hand is probably the single best known historic fact in the world about Belgium (thanks to ABBA). And of course there are also all the movies about famous battles that took place in the trenches in WWI and in the Ardennes in WWII.

But if the objective of the poll is to name a movie that represents a country because it takes place in this country, then I agree with you that In Bruges is the best choice.

Up to KhaledKalache to decide...

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It doesn't talk about the history, but I don't think any non-documentary film would do it anyway. I thought about In Bruges mainly because of Ebert's review, here's how it started:
You may know that Bruges, Belgium, is pronounced "broozh," but I didn't, and the heroes of "In Bruges" certainly don't. They're Dublin hit- men, sent there by their boss for two weeks after a hit goes very wrong. One is a young hothead who sees no reason to be anywhere but Dublin; the other, older, gentler, more curious, buys a guidebook and announces: "Bruges is the best-preserved medieval city in Belgium!"

So it certainly seems. If the movie accomplished nothing else, it inspired in me an urgent desire to visit Bruges.

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For me I picked a historical movie about the the Algerian War of Independence, I think the movie sums up what Algerians went through to get the independence and that what shape Algeria today in the most part ..
so what's your final pick?

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Ok, let's go for In Bruges

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Alright, added.

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When you told me about your poll, I immediately thought of Battle of Algiers, I couldn't see another choice for you. Here's how I ended my review of the film and it might echo your sentiment:
The climactic conclusion will haunt me forever through this scene where the policeman asks the population "What do you want?" and then, behind the mist, you hear people's shouts punctuated with Algerian women's strident yodels … they shout and dance, waving the new Algerian banner in one my most thrilling cinematic moments, even more relevant when you think of the current events in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries, the shouts of despair and chants of hopes, from overly passionate populations who know the value of freedom enough to fight for it.

This in an exhilarating movie which, more personally, made me shudder so many times I thought I left my window open. But then I realized this sensation in my shoulders was the weight of affiliation to a culture that seems to get things the hard way, a hot blooded culture that inhabits the eyes of my Algerian grand-mother who lived that time ... a sensibility that I inherited, making me react to the beautiful closing theme with deep emotions and hopes for a better future…


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