Serbia and Croatia send local hits to the Oscars
- Serbia has selected the box-office smash See You in Montevideo, while Croatia has opted for the play adaptation Cowboys
Serbia and Croatia have announced their submissions for the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award.
The choice of the Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences is Dragan Bjelogrlić’s See You in Montevideo. The Intermedia Network film, guest-starring Armand Assante, is a story about the Yugoslav football team’s participation in the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. It is a sequel to Bjelogrlić’s Montevideo, Taste of a Dream, which was also Serbia’s Oscar submission in 2011.
The two films amassed more than one million admissions in the territory, with the sequel reaching 498,500 tickets to gross €1.5 million.
On the other hand, the Croatian Filmmakers’ Association selected Tomislav Mršić's Cowboys [+see also:
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