The main award of Berlinale received a film about the production of Shakespeare in prison

The award ceremony of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival was held on Saturday evening. The jury, chaired by the English director Mike Lee, awarded the Golden Bear to the film Paolo and Vittorio Taviani "Caesar must die," RIA Novosti reports. This is a witty and mercifully short (only 76 min.) The story of how real mafiosi, bandits and killers put in the prison Theater of Shakespearean Julia Caesar.

The film originally appeared in the leaders of critical ratings and was considered one of the most likely candidates for victory.

The second most important reward, the Grand Prix of the jury, went to the young and extremely versatile Hungarian director Benedeck Fligaufu. Having tried himself both in experimental cinema (Milky Way), and in mainstream science fiction (“womb”), Fligauf turned to social cinema: his new film “Just the Wind” talks about reprisals against the gypsy ethnic minority.

The favorite of the local public and critics Christian Petzold, one of the leaders of the so -called Berlin school, was content with the prize for the best directing. Its Barbara is a modest, but almost impeccably tailored dramatic thriller from the East German past.

A special prize of the jury went away to the film "Sister" (L'Enfant d'On Haut, or Sister) of the Swiss director Ursula Mayer.

A very young debutant Rachel Mvanza received a "silver bear" for the best female role ("rebel", Canada). The jury also noted the Chinese “White Deer Valley” for operator work (“Silver Bear” for outstanding artistic achievements) and the Portuguese “Tabu” - for the innovative cinema language (prize named after the founder of the Festival of Alfred Bauer). The director of Tabu Miguel Gomesh - an ex -Kinocritist who took off a whim of black and white pastes - joked at the ceremony, which he had not hoped to get an innovation reward, because he made an “old -fashioned movie”. In addition, the “taboo” predictably received a prize of international criticism - the cinema is filled with blue -filled references.

The only surprise with some stretch is only that the award of two “silver bears” at once with the ordinary Danish costume drama “Royal Roman” (for the script and the best male role). Otherwise, the list of noted paintings does not raise questions.

The family drama of Bili Bob Thornton "Machine Jane Mansfield", produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, was left without awards, however, as the producer noted, the film aroused a significant interest in the film market.

This year, the laureates of Berlinal are chosen by the jury under the leadership of the British film director Mike Lee. In addition to him, the jury includes French director Francois Ozone, his colleague from Iran Asgar Farhadi, the director of the Netherlands Anton Corbein, actress Charlotte Hensbur, actor Jake Jillenhall from the USA, Algerian writer Buale Sansal and actress from Germany Barbara Sukov.

For the first time, the Berlin International Film Festival was held on June 6, 1951. Along with Cannes and Venetian festivals, he is considered the largest and most prestigious cinema in the world. In different years, the films of Ingmara Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, directors of the French “New Wave” - Jean -Luka Godard, Claude Shabrovle had a great success at the Berlin Film Festival. Russian cinema was not represented at the Berlin festival until 1975. The first picture shown in Berlin was the film by Sergey Solovyov "A hundred days after childhood."