WARSAW — This year the Czech Republic selected, as its Oscar candidate for Best Foreign Language Film, a picture by the Polish director Agnieszka Holland. This was the first time the Czech Film Academy had ever nominated a foreigner. Last week, however, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified the film, without explaining its reasoning.
Ms. Holland has been nominated for an Oscar several times in the past, and she will no doubt be nominated again. The interesting question is: What did a Polish director do to deserve such an honor from the Czechs?
The film, “Burning Bush,” tells the story of Jan Palach, a student who set himself on fire in January 1969, after the Soviets suppressed the Prague Spring.
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