Foreign film directors discuss their work

February 24, 2008 That's the connection Mark Johnson, Oscar-winning producer and chair of the Academy's foreign language executive committee, found among those nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. "Each [character] needs to survive by any means, yet are pulled in separate directions by this sense of right and wrong," he said during a Saturday morning symposium at the Academy with the directors of the five foreign language films nominated for an Oscar. Stefan Ruzowitzky, Joseph Cedar, Sergei Bodrov, Andrzej Wajda and Nikita Mikhalkov -- shared their vision for their films and the difficulties and joys of making them to a packed audience inside the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

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