List of entries for Best Foreign Language Film for the 1972 Academy Awards

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The following 20 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1972 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the Soviet Union. The Oscar went to the Italian film Der Garten der Finzi Contini , a drama about an aristocratic Jewish family.

Bulgaria and Canada made proposals for this category for the first time.

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Languages)	Original title	Director (s)	Result
Egypt	Imra'ah wa ragoul	Arabic	امرأة و رجل (Imra'a wa-ragul)	Houssam Eddine Mostafa	Not nominated
Brazil	Pra Quem Fica, Tchau	Portuguese	Pra Quem Fica, Tchau	Reginaldo Faria	Not nominated
Bulgaria	Hedgehogs are born without bristles	Bulgarian	Таралежите се раждат без бодли (Taraleschite se raschdat bes bodli)	Dimitar Petrov	Not nominated
Denmark	Forsvundne fuldmægtig	Danish	Forsvundne fuldmægtig	Gert Fredholm	Not nominated
BR Germany	The castle	German	The castle	Rudolf Noelte	Not nominated
France	Clay walls	French	Remparts d'argile	Jean-Louis Bertuccelli	Not nominated
India	Reshma and Shera	Hindi	रेशमा और शेरा (Reshma Aur Shera)	Sunil Dutt	Not nominated
Israel	Sleep well, sergeant!	Hebrew	Ha-Shoter Azulai	Ephraim Kishon	Nominated
Italy	The garden of the Finzi Contini	Italian	Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini	Vittorio De Sica	Won
Japan	Dodescades - people on the sidelines	Japanese	ど で す か で ん (Dodesukads)	Akira Kurosawa	Nominated
Canada	My uncle Antoine	French	Mon oncle Antoine	Claude Jutra	Not nominated
Mexico	El Topo	Spanish	El Topo	Alejandro Jodorowsky	Not nominated
Netherlands	Mira	Dutch	Mira	Fons Rademakers	Not nominated
Poland	Family life	Polish	Życie rodzinne	Krzysztof Zanussi	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	The shepherd	Macedonian	Црно семе (Crno seme)	Kiril Cenevski	Not nominated
Romania	The battle of the giants	Romanian	Mihai Viteazul	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not nominated
Sweden	Emigrants	Swedish	Utvandrarna	Jan Troell	Nominated
Soviet Union	Tchaikovsky	Russian	Чайкoвский (Tchaikovsky)	Igor Vasilyevich Talankin	Nominated
Spain	Marta	Spanish	Marta	José Antonio Nieves Conde	Not nominated
Hungary	love	Hungarian	Szerelem	Károly Makk	Not nominated