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Nordrand
''Northern Skirts'' () is a 1999 German language, German-language film directed by Barbara Albert. It was an international co-production between Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It was Austria's official List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film addresses the marginalisation of the Vienna's migrant and ethnic minority population against the background of rising xenophobia encouraged by Joerg Haider and the so-called Freedom Party. Cast *Nina Proll as Jasmin Schmid *Madita, Edita Malovcic as Tamara *Astrit Alihajdaraj as Senad *Tudor Chirilă as Valentin *Michael Tanczos as Roman *Georg Friedrich (actor), Georg Friedrich as Wolfgang *Martina Stojan as Sonja *Marta Klubowicz as Jolanta *Brigitte Kren as Gitti Reception David Rooney of ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' wrote "''Northern Skirts'' remains too fragmented in its pre ...
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Barbara Albert
Barbara Albert (born 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director. She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was '' Nordrand'', which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna. She heads the production company ''Coop 99'' with Jessica Hausner Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She received international attention in 2001 when her film ''Lovely Rita'', a portrait of a young girl who feels confined by family constraints, was screened i ... and Antonin Svoboda, among others. Filmography *2017 ''Mademoiselle Paradis'' *2006 ''Fallen'' *2003 ''Free Radicals'' *2001 ''Zur Lage'' *1999 '' Nordrand'' *1998 ''Somewhere else'' *1998 ''Slidin‘ – alles bunt und wunderbar'' *1998 ''Sonnenflecken'' *1993 ''Die Frucht deines Leibes'' *1993 ''Nachtschwalben'' Prizes *"Marcello Mastroianni Award" (Best Young Actress) Venedig ...
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Tudor Chirilă
Tudor Chirilă (born 28 May 1974 in Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Romania) is a Romanian actor, musician, composer, and producer. He was the lead singer of the band Vama Veche (band), Vama Veche, after which he founded the band Vama. As an actor, he featured in both short and long movies and has played reference roles in plays of some of the most important Romanian directors. In 2012, he published his first book, "Exerciții de Echilibru", which has united some of the writings from his personal blog. In 2014, he became a coach for Vocea României, The Voice Romania, alongside Loredana Groza, Smiley (singer), Smiley, and Marius Moga. Over the years, Chirilă has been involved in numerous social causes. In 2005, he initiated the campaign "Live pentru viață", which had the intent to gather donations for flood victims. He supported the fundraiser campaign for children with cancer called "Nu ma ignora", which was initiated by "Salvează Vieți" Association. Along wit ...
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List Of Submissions To The 72nd Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non- English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 72nd Academy Awards, the Academy invited 75 countries to submit films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1999. Forty-seven countries submitted films to the Academy, surpassing the record set in 1994. The Asian nations of Bhutan, Nepal and Tajikistan submitted films for the first time ever. The nominations were announced ...
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List Of Austrian Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Austria has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. Four Austrian films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Wolfgang Glück's '' '38 - Vienna Before the Fall'' at the 59th Academy Awards, Stefan Ruzowitzky's '' The Counterfeiters'' at the 80th Academy Awards, Gotz Spielmann's Revanche at the 81st Academy Awards, and Michael Haneke's Amour at the 85th Academy Awards. Ruzowitzky's ''The Counterfeiters'' and Haneke's ''Amour'' won the award. Submissions The Academy o ...
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Martina Stojan
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Romanian-language Films
Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește'', ) is the official and main language of Romania and the Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania (Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 28–29 million people as an L1+ L2, of whom 23–24 millions are native speakers. In Europe, Romanian is rated as a medium level language, occupying the tenth position among thirty-seven official languages. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called ''Daco-Romanian'' as opposed to its closest rela ...
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Swiss Drama Films
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Austrian Drama Films
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German Drama Films
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ...
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Brigitte Kren
Brigitte Kren is an Austrian actress who has had leading roles in films and television shows. She participated in '' Dancing Stars (Austria season 7)''. Films * Ant Street (1995) as Rosi Freitag * Northern Skirts (1999) as Gitti * Slugs (2004 film) as Anita *The Debt (2010 film) as Frau Bernhardt / Nurse * Blood Glacier as Minister Bodicek TV series *Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall , Four Women and a Funeral, 2005 *Bettys Diagnose - 2017 *SOKO Donau ''SOKO Donau'' (in Germany ''SOKO Wien'') is an Austrian crime drama television series produced by ORF in collaboration with the German network ZDF. It is the sixth spin-off of the German crime series ''SOKO 5113'' (''SOKO München'' since 201 ... - 2018 Freud 2020 References External linksIMDB
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