Woschitz wins with "Universalove".

This winner of the Max Ophüls Prize comes from Austria: Director Thomas Woschitz was in Saarbrücken for his movie "Universalove" excellent.

 

Saarbrücken - Woschitz take viewers "on a great journey, and raises at all venues lebensklugen a look at the love, the confusion, the madness and futility of love," says the Jury for the awards ceremony on Saturday evening in Saarbrücken . In his episode of the film in Brazil, Belgrade, Tokyo, Luxembourg and New York plays, the director in developing "his virtuosically entangled episode film from the aesthetics of music videos, a young, stubborn narrative style."

In the over 80-minute film tells the story of 1968 in Klagenfurt Woschitz born of love, in every moment in every place on earth happened. The episode about the oldest subject in the world play, inter alia, in Tokyo, where a shy Japanese to the object of his desire is struggling or in Luxembourg, where a businessman, his feelings for a gay discovered. The strip at the festival had its German premiere experience.

A total of 15 feature films competed since Monday at the 18,000 Euro prize money with the Max Ophüls Prize. In addition, numerous other categories awarded a total of twelve awards. The 1980 from the city of Saarbrücken-week festival is founded by experts as one of the most important forums for the young German cinema. In the festival jury for the major categories of long-and short sat next to actor Ulrich Noethen journalist Christiane Peitz, the producer Gloria Burkert, the film agent Uschi Keil and last year's winner of the Max Ophüls Prize, director André Erkau. Overall, in the context of competition twelve prizes awarded by various juries.

Actor Sergej Moya won for his role in Olav Fehlinger film "Kronos. And the beginning of the end" the price for the best young actor. He had the tragedy of the father-son conflict multifaceted and psychologically represented exactly, justified the jury their verdict. The prize for best female actress received Irina Potapenko, in the opinion of the judges and of course with precision in the film "Revanche" embodies a prostitute, without the usual clichés to use. The short film prize went to "Schautag" by Marvin Kren, the award for medium-length films to Helene Hegemann "torpedo".

The documentary prize awarded Jens Junker for his film "Alias" about a young man who learns that his father was not his biological father is. In this first year there were a competition for documentaries, even the hitherto could grab a prize, but with the other films in the competition had to compete. This 30th Edition of the film festival will officially come to an end this Sunday.

The price of the Saarland's Prime Minister went to the movie "A moment of freedom" by director Arash T. Riahi. The Iranians in exile who has for many years, lives in Austria, says in his drama of three Iranian refugee groups, the hope from Istanbul in the West. The tragedy of some cases Riahi balanced with a portion of black humor.

1984, The festival is named after the in Saarbrücken-born director Max Ophuls (1902-1957). It is regarded as the principal forum of the young German cinema.