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Ariel Awards
Silver Ariel, Best Supporting Actor
Silver Ariel, Best Cinematography
Silver Ariel, Best Supporting Actress
A working-class tough is hired to terrorize the tenants of a Mexico City apartment complex by the landlord. He kills one of the tenants and then falls in love with the victim's daughter, only to discover that the&hellip…
Cannes Film Festival
Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer to transport two truckloads of nitroglycerin&hellip&hellip…
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Critics Award, Best Film
Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer&hellip…
Locarno International Film Festival
Prize
Ranked as one of Germany's most important films ever, ROTATION is the story of a German family that becomes divided over supporting the Nazis. The father considers joining the Nazi party purely to improve his finances. But after he helps print resistance leaflets, his son, a Hitler Youth member, betrays him. After the war&hellip…
Mainichi Film Concours
Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction
Often cited by critics as one of the greatest films ever made, Kenji Mizoguchi's UGETSU includes the director's signature theme of the women oppressed while adopting a broader philosophical perspective on human affairs. Set against the backdrop of the feudal wars of 16th-century Japan&hellip…
Venice International Film Festival
Silver Lion
Golden Lion(Nominee)
This stunning Kenji Mizoguchi masterpiece reaches back to a Japanese folk tale of the 12th century to depict the barbarism of "a dark age, when people didn't know how to be human." The film stars Yoshiaki Hanayagi as Zushiô, the young son of a provincial governor Masauji Taira (Masao&hellip…