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Posted: Saturday February 19th, 2005 23:55 |
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BY MATT SURMAN
Feb. 19, 2005 - The South African film "Carmen in Khayelitsha," which sets Georges Bizet's opera against the hardship of a modern-day township, won the Berlin International Film Festival's top award Saturday.
The Xhosa-language film directed by Mark Dornford-May and starring Pauline Malefane received the Golden Bear for the best film in competition for its classic story of passionate love set amid the struggles of life in a South African township.
The second-place Silver Bear award went to the Chinese film "Peacock," directed by Gu Changwei, which documents the everyday life of a working-class family in a small Chinese town.
Best actress went to a German, Julia Jentsch, who plays the title role in "Sophie Scholl The Final Days." Marc Rothemunds won best director for the story of the iconic member of the anti-Nazi resistance who was beheaded with her brother following their arrests for leafleting.
The jury, headed by Roland Emmerich, the director of "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow," chose Lou Taylor Pucci as best actor for his role as an insecure teenager in the U.S. film "Thumbsucker."
"Thumbsucker" was the only one of five American entrants to win a major award.
"I'm happy that I could receive the award, but I'm also happy that it's over," a breathless Jentsch said after the winners were announced.
A formal awards ceremony was to be held later Saturday.
Jentsch said last week that she tried to avoid Scholl's heroine status in Germany, where the Scholl name has been given to streets and schools across the country.
"The iconic image was what I wanted to avoid," she said. "I tried not to think about it."
"Paradise Now," a German, French and Dutch co-production from director Hany Abu-Assad that follows 28 hours in the lives of two Palestinian suicide bombers, was voted best European film.
This year's festival highlighted films from and about Africa. Besides "Carmen in Khayelitsha," other African-themed films included two about the 1994 Rwanda genocide, "Sometimes in April" and "Hotel Rwanda," both of which showed out of competition.
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Posted: Sunday February 20th, 2005 00:22 |
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