Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Tokyo Film Festival Awards
2009 Tokyo Film Festival: October 17-25, 2009
 

In Kamen Kalev’s Bulgarian drama Eastern Plays, two estranged brothers are unexpectedly brought together after they play opposing roles in a racist beating — Georgi is a new member of a neo-Nazi group; Itso, a drug-addicted artist, rescues the victimized Turkish family. Compounding matters, Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) starts to question his place in the neo-nazi movement while Itso (Tokyo best actor winner Christo Christov) falls for the Turkish girl he saved. Eastern Plays is the second film featuring neo-nazi characters to win a top international film festival prize this week. Nicolo Donato’s Danish drama Brotherhood, about two neo-nazis who fall in love with one another, was [...]

by Irene Young | October 25, 2009   
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