German Film Critics Awards - 2006 Winners
February 16th, 2007 by Andre Soares
Is Sandra Hüller possessed by the devil, or is she suffering from a bad case of indigestion? The Catholic priests, of course, are ready to believe in the worst.
The association of German film critics has announced their list of 2006 winners.
Surprisingly, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others failed to nab the best film prize, which went to Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem, based on the real-life story of a woman who believed herself possessed by the devil. (That story also inspired the pathetic The Exorcism of Emily Rose.)
Henckel von Donnersmarck had to content himself with the best first film prize. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Das Leben der Anderen has had the biggest opening for a German-language film ever in the United States. (I’m assuming that those figures — as usual — haven’t been adjusted for inflation.) Having been greeted with overwhelmingly positive notices in Germany and abroad, the — in my invariably humble opinion — overlong and unconvincing spy melodrama is up for a best foreign-language film Academy Award.
Requiem star Sandra Hüller was voted best actress — she also won the Silver Bear at last year’s Berlin Film Festival — while Ulrich Mühe, as the conflicted spy in Das Leben der Anderen, was chosen best actor.
Wolfgang Kohlhaase was the best screenwriter for Sommer vorm Balkon / Summer in Berlin, directed by Andreas Dresen. The film revolves around the struggles of two women (Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl) spending the summer in Berlin.
Full list of 2006 German Film Critics winners
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