Malkovich gained significant critical and popular acclaim when he portrayed the sinister and sensual Valmont in the film "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), a film adaptation of the stage play "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Christopher Hampton, who had adapted it from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. He later reprised this role for the music video of "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox. He played Port Moresby in "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and appeared in "Shadows and Fog" (1991), directed by Woody Allen. In 1990, he recited, in Croatian, verses of the Croatian national anthem "Lijepa naša domovino" ("Our Beautiful Homeland") in Nenad Bach's song "Can We Go Higher?"