"Elite" Grabs Top Berlin Film Prize

by jordan | February 16, 2008 at 03:24 pm | 351 views | 4 comments

The Golden Bear (the Berlin Film Festival's grand prize) has been awarded to Tropa de elite (The Elite Squad) in a major upset; Paul Thomas Anderson's oil-man epic There Will Be Blood was the favorite.

The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police officers supposed to be fighting drug crime in Brazil, has won the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

However, Anderson scored an award for Best Director. Check out all the winners here.

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Gabi_Berlin

at 05:21 on February 17th, 2008

After the screening of "Ballast" by Lance Hammer I stopped at the MaXX-Bar for a short while and saw as a real surprise that the main actors of "Ballast" and the director were talking to Knut Elstermann.
They finished the interview and I could have a little chat with Tarra Rigg. She is very very nice and gave a warm hug when I wished good luck to her and the movie.
And she gave me an autograph on my ticket. A very impressive movie and thanks to Tarra and all of them, Gabi

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jordan

at 12:34 on February 17th, 2008

That's why film festivals are so cool: the barrier between audience and filmmaker isn't as big.

splintervsstalin

at 08:20 on February 17th, 2008

i was in Berlin for the Berlinale because a track of my music band was choosen for the soundtrack of Bruce La Bruce's "Otto; or up with dead people", which was screening at the Panorama Section of the Berlinale.

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lexxox

at 21:03 on February 17th, 2008

The local Radio-Station "Radio eins" welcomes its listeners to the "Berlinale 2008" -with a funny hint to "Flocke", the new polar-bear-star in Nürnberg (after "Knut" in Berlin)- in the name of "Knut Elstermann" the lokal night-talk-master.

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