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A director from one of these two countries took advantage of the other’s lax censorship to make the erotic anthology Immoral Tales. In a film set in these (15[1])two countries, a green-tinged sequence depicts a teacher watching a marionette show. In another film, (15[1])a seemingly-irrelevant shot of a suitcase at an airport (15[1])is revealed to contain a man (15[1])smuggling himself from one of these countries to the other. (15[1])En route to meeting a lawyer, a film’s protagonist stumbles upon two hairdressers from these two countries divorcing due to the husband’s (*) impotence. In a film scored by a composer with the (-5[1])surname Preisner, a soprano and music teacher from these two countries are both played by Irène Jacob. A director from one of these two countries (10[1])used a film about a composer’s grieving widow to begin (10[1])a series themed (10[1])on the other’s flag. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, name these two European countries that produced the Three Colours trilogy. ■END■ (10[1])

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