Hřebejk and Jarchovský in Oscar race again with Kawasaki's Rose
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The Czech Republic is submitting Jan Hřebejk’s Kawasaki's Rose as its contender in the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Czech Film and Television Academy considered three films: Kawasaki's Rose, Tomaš Mašín’s 3 Seasons in Hell and Kooky by Jan Sverak. Kawasaki's Rose tells the story of a renowned scientist and former dissident who is about to receive a national honor.
The distinction sets into motion a number of events bringing to light his past, in which the communist state police coerced him into discrediting a former friend.
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