Golden Bear goes to Peru.

Premiere debut to measure: the first time in Peru took part in the Berlinale - and has been for "La teta asustada" like the Golden Bear award. The best actress comes from Austria, her male counterpart from Mali. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to a German film.

 

Berlin - The Golden Bear of the 59th Berlinale goes to the Peruvian film "La Teta Asustada" ( "The milk of suffering"). That, the international jury of the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday evening. The 32-year-old director Claudia Llosa recounts in the film by a young woman who died as a result of the annual past terrorist system in Peru is suffering. The Andean country was the first time at the Berlinale competition and brought immediately to the main prize.

The decision, the Peruvian-Spanish production, as the best film award, was, according to President of the Jury unanimously Tilda Swinton. Director Llosa was overjoyed and told some 1600 guests, the price is a great honor. Actress Magaly Soli said: "It touches me greatly, I tremble formally."

"La Teta Asustada" is the second feature film by Llosa, the niece of the writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The young Fausta, the impressive solos played by, lives in a poor district of Lima and suffers from a mysterious illness. This was confirmed by the milk of mothers transferred during pregnancy or lactation during the period of terror in the country have been raped - including her mother. After whose death starts the traumatized Fausta a journey from fear to freedom. The film has not yet German rental.

Two prizes were awarded to the German film "All Others" by Maren Ade. For her role in the relationship drama, the Austrian actress Birgit Minichmayr a Silver Bear. "All others" was also the Grand Prize of the jury award. The prize was awarded in equal parts to "Gigante" by Adrián Biniez from Uruguay.

Berlinale-winner

Category
Prize Winners

Golden Bear
"La Teta Asustada"

Grand Jury Prize
"All others" / "Gigante"

Best Director
"Everything about Elly

Best Actress
Birgit Minichmayr

Best Actor
Sotigui Kouyaté

Outstanding artistic achievement
Gábor Erdélyi / Tamás Székely

Best Screenplay
"The Messenger"

Best First Film
"Gigante"

Alfred Bauer Prize
"Gigante"

Ade director said the award meant it very much. It was a great honor, a prize at a festival to win, that they love. "I am very happy, even if I do not really act," she said. In "All Others" with Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger Ade tells the tragicomic story of a young couple in the holidays, the only light left and starts suddenly in a crisis.

As was the best actor from Mali-born Sotigui Kouyaté with a Silver Bear award. He embodies in the drama "London River" on the impact of the bomb attacks in London 2005 (Director: Rachid Bouchareb / France), the male main character. He hoped that the Berlinale is still forever give, Kouyaté said. The prize for best director went to the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi Society for his panoramic "All about Elly."

For the best screenplay was director Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for the U.S. anti-war drama "The Messenger" honored. A Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement got the sound designer and Gábor Erdélyi Tamás Székely for their work on the film 'Katalin Varga' by Peter Strickland (Romania / United Kingdom / Hungary).

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The tragi-comedy "Gigante" was next to the Grand Jury Prize, the award for best debut film and also divides the Alfred Bauer Prize with Andrzej Wajda's "The calamus" from Poland.

The Berlinale has this year with 270,000 tickets sold, a visitor record. Over the past year, 240,000 tickets have been sold. "Thanks to the new venues Friedrichstadtpalast Cinema Paris and we were able this year even more film fans the opportunity to witness the festival program," stressed the Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick on Saturday. "The Berlinale proves that it is a film enthusiastic audience, which loves the cinema."

Overall, at the 59th Berlinale 383 films in 1238 demonstrations showed. Almost 20,000 accredited festival guests came from 136 countries.