Disqualified?


Why was this film disqualified from the best foreign language film category?

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Because most of the dialogue is in English, that is one of the reasons. Plus, it was critically panned (undeservedly).

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This is a late answer to this post, but I just read in The Filmmakers Companion which reviews many of Nikita Mikhalkov's films that "the film had at that point already been rejected by the Academy for not fulfilling the requirement of theratrical release before 31 October, 1998."

This is a wonderful book if you are interested and have watched Mikhalkov's films.

Also read somewhere that Richard Harris refused to attend the Cannes Festival because of feeling his role had been dimished to almost nothing.(???)

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