The movie "accused»By Paula van der Oest has been chosen by the Netherlands to compete for the Oscar Best Film in Non-English Speech.
This will be the second time Paula van der west represent your country in this category of the Hollywood Academy Awards, the first time was in 2002 when you finally won the nomination for "Zus & Zo."
Netherlands It is one of the luckiest ones in the category of best foreign film, now called best foreign language film, the country has won up to three awards out of the seven nominations it has received. In 1987 "The assault»(« De Aanslag ») gave the first statuette to the country,«Antonia"(" Antonia's Line ") in 1996 and" Character "(" Karakter ") in 1998 would repeat for the Netherlands. The last time the Netherlands was nominated for the award was in 2004 with Ben Sombogaart's "Twin Sisters" ("From Tweeling").
Based on the true story of Lucia of Berk nicknamed 'The Angel of Death', 'Accused', 'Lucia by B.»In its original title, it tells the story of this nurse sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 for seven murders and three attempts who was finally declared innocent by the State Attorney General's Office six years later after reviewing the case and understanding that they could not be prove the accusations.
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