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Introducing new Language Interest pages
We're excited to announce the launch of 29 new Interest pages dedicated to specific languages on IMDb! These pages make it easier than ever to discover films in your preferred languages.
What's New:
* Each language has its own dedicated Interest page, showcasing titles where that specific language is set as the primary language
* You can find these new pages in our Interest hub at: https://www.imdb.com/interest/all/
* Language interests now appear as the first "pill" on the title page, followed by subgenres and genres (For example, check out "In the Mood for Love" where you'll see 'Cantonese' listed first, followed by Dark Romance, Tragic Romance, and then the genres Drama and Romance)
Help Us Improve:
* We're continuously expanding our Interest categories and welcome your feedback on the descriptions
* If you notice a title that appears under the wrong language category, you can help by contributing a correction to the title's primary language information. For guidance on how to submit a Language correction please refer to our Help Guide: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/languages/GSCRBZYEH5NX5SXL#
This is just the beginning of our efforts to make language-based discovery even better on IMDb. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions!
— The IMDb Team




Peter_pbn
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MykolaYeriomin
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I honestly don't know why Language should be a special interest, but Country should not (or why Language was introduced first), because all it does to me and many more people in Ukraine is messily and chaotically reminding us that we had our identity stolen by the USSR. Half the Soviet Ukrainian (a category that Criterion rather progressively adopted, btw) movies are in the "Russian" special interest. It might have some merit for language learning but I guarantee that if Spanish will include Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela among others in one "special interest" it will cause ruckus once in a while. I really don't think that making the movie's language its primary identity even before the genre is a good idea. Where do you put silent movies? Movies which have fewer lines of dialogue?..
At the very least this should include most languages and have languages ordered 1 through 3 included, but this will be just a redundant hoarding of the page since there is a detailed account of languages below anyway. Maybe just move that above, and or the country?..
IMDb had a few great features in recent updates, but this one is just baffling to me from every perspective. I just can't see the merit, neither as a language learning enthusiast nor as an international relations specialist. It rubs me the wrong way as a both.
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I’m jumping in to support Mykola’s points. We really need to clean up the Language field for non-Russian films from the Soviet era (Georgian, Armenian, Ukrainian, etc.).
It’s technically incorrect to have Russian listed as an original language for these titles, especially when it’s explicitly tagged as (dubbed). According to the guidelines, the Language field is for the original audio only.
A Russian dub created for USSR-wide distribution is no different from a German or French dub of a Hollywood movie—it belongs in Alternate Versions, not under the primary Language. Keeping it as is only causes confusion for users and misrepresents the cultural identity of these productions.
I've been working on titles like Dzakhili (1979) and many others where this legacy data persists. I hope we can get a clearer path to removing these "dubbed" entries to ensure the database reflects the true original languages of these films.
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