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The end of Qiu Miaojin’s novel Last Words from Montmartre features excerpts from this director’s film The Suspended Step of the Stork in French, Chinese, and English. The protagonist of a film by this director, who is simply called “A,” rides on a boat carrying the disassembled limbs of a statue of Vladimir Lenin. A key shot from a 1988 film by this director depicts a helicopter hoisting a huge sculpture of a hand above two children, who had run away from home to find their estranged father in Germany. This director won the 1998 Palme d’Or for a film about an illegal Albanian immigrant boy hidden by a terminally ill man played by (*) Bruno Ganz. This director used deep focus compositions and long takes in The Travelling Players and other (10[1])1970s (10[1])films shot during the Regime of the Colonels. For 10 points, Ulysses’ Gaze, Eternity and a Day, and Landscape in the Mist are films directed by what titan of Greek cinema? ■END■

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