German heist film "Victoria", shot in one take in more than 20 locations in central Berlin, won top honors at the German Film Prize on Friday, taking best picture and five categories in one of the most lucrative film awards in the world.
The film tells the tragic story of Victoria - a talented but unemployed pianist from Spain stranded in Berlin - as she leaves a nightclub meets a wild bunch of young men and becomes involved in an armed robbery.
"Crime pays," director Sebastian Schipper told an applauding audience of more than 2,000 people, including the German Minister of Culture Monika Gruetters.
The film also won the "Lola" for best director, best actress (Laia Costa), best actor (Frederick Lau), best camera (Sturla Brandth Grovlen) and best music (Nils Frahm).
Rights screen for "Victoria" have been sold to over 30 countries around the world and it is scheduled for release in the United States, Britain, France and Spain in the coming months.
The Edward Snowden film "Citizen Four" by Laura Poitras, partly shot in Berlin, won the "Lola" for best documentary.
The ballots were cast by more than 1,600 industry professionals who are part of the German Film Academy. The prices are not meant to award box office success but cultural achievement.
The German Government endorses the € 3 million in prizes, which are distributed among the dozens of nominated films as an indirect subsidy for future projects.
Presented annually since 1951, the "Lola" Germany's answer to Hollywood's Oscars and the British BAFTA awards.
In 2006, the German surveillance state drama "The Lives of Others" ("the lives of others") got seven "Lolas" before later winning the best foreign film Oscar.
The film tells the tragic story of Victoria - a talented but unemployed pianist from Spain stranded in Berlin - as she leaves a nightclub meets a wild bunch of young men and becomes involved in an armed robbery.
"Crime pays," director Sebastian Schipper told an applauding audience of more than 2,000 people, including the German Minister of Culture Monika Gruetters.
The film also won the "Lola" for best director, best actress (Laia Costa), best actor (Frederick Lau), best camera (Sturla Brandth Grovlen) and best music (Nils Frahm).
Rights screen for "Victoria" have been sold to over 30 countries around the world and it is scheduled for release in the United States, Britain, France and Spain in the coming months.
The Edward Snowden film "Citizen Four" by Laura Poitras, partly shot in Berlin, won the "Lola" for best documentary.
The ballots were cast by more than 1,600 industry professionals who are part of the German Film Academy. The prices are not meant to award box office success but cultural achievement.
The German Government endorses the € 3 million in prizes, which are distributed among the dozens of nominated films as an indirect subsidy for future projects.
Presented annually since 1951, the "Lola" Germany's answer to Hollywood's Oscars and the British BAFTA awards.
In 2006, the German surveillance state drama "The Lives of Others" ("the lives of others") got seven "Lolas" before later winning the best foreign film Oscar.
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