Global General
Turkish film wins in Berlin, Polanski honoured
(Agencies/Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-21 11:25
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Russia's "How I Ended This Summer" and Romanian entry "If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle" were both multiple winners.
How I Ended, set in gigantic, windswept landscapes of the Arctic Circle, is about two men working at a remote weather station completely cut off from the outside world.
The cast of two -- Grigori Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis -- shared the best actor award, while the movie also won a silver bear for outstanding artistic contribution.
If I Want to Whistle, a prison drama about a teenager's desperate bid to escape, won the runner-up jury prize and the Alfred-Bauer award for cinematic innovation.
Chinese Film "Tuan Yuan" (Apart Together) won Silver Bear for the best screenplay.
"Tuan Yuan", directed by Wang Quan'an, who won the Golden Bear in 2007 for "Tuya's Marriage," is about a soldier who flees Shanghai in 1949 for Taiwan. After many decades he returns to his old life to find his former love has long since married.
It is the opening night film of the 60th Berlin film festival and one of two Chinese language films in the main competition. The other is the newest film "San qiang pai an jing qi" ("A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop"), by Zhang Yimou, whose classic "Red Sorghum" won the first Golden Bear for China in 1988.
Altogether ten Chinese language films were shown at the festival.
