At the award ceremony of the German Film Prize “Victoria” by Sebastian Schipper has been chosen as the most outstanding film – with a total of six Lolas
The actress Laia Costa receives the “Lola” award in the category “Best Actress” for the thriller “Victoria”. | © Kay Nietfeld / dpa
At the ceremony of the 65th German Film Prize has Victoria presents the largest winner of the evening: A total of six Lolas took the real-time thriller , including Best Picture. It consists of a single 140 minute camera setting, telling the story of the young Spanish woman Victoria who lived through a night in Berlin. The film was shot in a single day. The Spaniard Laia Costa received for her role as Victoria, the Golden Lola, Film colleague Frederick Lau was honored as best actor. Sebastian Schipper’s real-time thriller also won the awards for best directing, cinematography and music.
The Silver Lola for best film was Jack by Edward Berger. A bronze Lola there for time of cannibals by Johannes Naber.
The actor Nina Kunz village and Joel Basman were awarded: Kunzendorf for Best Supporting Actress in the drama Phoenix by Christian Petzold. My Swiss colleague Basman got the trophy for his supporting role in We are young. We are strong. by Qurbani Burhan.
Til Schweiger received the Golden Lola for his Alzheimer’s tragicomedy Honey in the head as the “most visited film of the year”. Nearly seven million moviegoers have seen Honey in the head with Dieter Hallervorden in the lead role. For the race for the best feature film Schweiger had his film not submitted among other things because of earlier differences with the German Film Academy.
Laura Poitras’ film Citizen Four on the American whistleblower Edward Snowden is as Best Documentary was awarded. Like the comedy Rico, Oskar and the Deeper Shadows by Neele Leana Vollmar, who was named best children’s film. The film based on a novel by Andreas Steinhöfel is about the “deeply gifted” Rico and his gifted friend Oskar.
The costume designer Barbara Baum, the actor in movies like The Marriage of Maria Braun and Aimée & Jaguar clothed, was awarded the honorary Lola. The 71-year-old made mainly with their costumes for the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder a stir, with whom she worked for ten years.
Victoria was with seven nominations in advance a big favorite. Contrast, disappointment reigned supreme at the makers of history-drama Elser – He could have changed the world . The also nominated for seven Lolas film about Hitler assassin Georg Elser went away empty-handed.
The German Film Award has existed since 1951. It is for the German cinema is the most important national award and a total of nearly three million euros the highest honor awarded in German culture prize.
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