FOUR MINUTES TAKES TOP PRIZE AT GERMAN FILM AWARDS

Last updated: Sunday, May 6, 2007

FOUR MINUTES TAKES TOP PRIZE AT GERMAN FILM AWARDS

Drama VIER MINUTEN (FOUR MINUTES) won the top honour at the German Film Prize awards on Friday (04May07), taking home the 500,000 Euro ($680,500/GBP340,250) Lola for Best Picture.

The Chris Klaus-directed movie beat the award favourite, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, with both films nominated in eight categories.

But Vier Minuten only scooped one other prize - Best Actress for Monica Bleibtreu, whose role as an elderly piano teacher who befriends a young prison convict won the majority of the votes cast by the 800 members of the German Film Academy.

Tom Tykwer's Perfume was a big winner, excelling in the technical categories where it swept the board for Best Cinematography (Frank Griebe), Best Editing (Alexander Brenner), and Best Costume Design (Pierre-Yves Gayraud), among others.

However the surprise winner of the night was low-budget comedy Wer Frueher Stirbt ist Laenger Tot (Grave Decisions), taking home a total of four Lolas including Best Director for Marcus H. Rosenmueller and the Silver Lola for Best Film.

Other winners include Josef Bierbichler, who was named Best Actor for Winterreise (Winter Journey), Bummm! (Life Actually) star Hannah Herzsprung took the Best Supporting Actress, Devid Striesow won the Best Supporting Actor prize for his role in Stefan Ruzowitzky's Die Falshcher (The Counterfeiter), and veteran actor Armin Mueller-Stahl was honoured with the Lola for Lifetime Achievement.

The complete list of winners is as follows:

Best Film - Lola In Gold:

Vier Minuten by Chris Kraus

Best Film - Lola in Silver:

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Tom Tykwer + Wer Frueher Stirbt ist Laenger Tot by Marcus H. Rosenmueller

Best Children's Film:

Hands Off Mississippi by Detlev Buck

Best Documentary Director:

Workingman's Death by Michael Glawogger

Best Actress:

Monica Bleibtreu

Source: WENN

| Sunday, May 6, 2007

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