Roman Polanski wins most appropriate executive esteem in Berlin Film The Guardian

Roman Polanski. Photograph: Caetano Barreira/EPA

Roman Polanski was crowned most appropriate executive at the Berlin movie legal holiday for his thriller The Ghost Writer, in a move a little saw as politically encouraged since of his quarrel opposite US extradition over sex charges.

The Ghost Production year: 2010 Countries: France, Germany, UK Cert (UK): fifteen Directors: Roman Polanski Cast: Ewan McGregor, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Pierce Brosnan More on this movie

The 76-year old film-maker, who was incompetent to attend the awards rite since he is underneath residence detain in his Swiss chalet, sent a purposeful acceptance matter around his producers, saying: "Even if I could be there I wouldn"t, since the last time I went to a legal holiday to get a prize, I finished up in jail."

Polanski was referring to the Zurich movie festival, where he was arrested last Sep at the ask of US authorities. Since afterwards he has been hold in custody, initial in prison and after at his home, where he is electronically tagged and incompetent to move serve than his garden. The director, who jumped US bail in 1978 after revelation carrying sex with a minor, has perceived outspoken await from most of Europe"s inventive elite.

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Polanski took the supposed "Silver Bear" prize for his instrumentation of a Robert Harris novel about a man commissioned to write the memoirs of a beleaguered former British budding minister.

Film critics gave a churned greeting to the decision. The Hollywood Reporter said: "Whatever the reasons for the jury"s decision, the Silver Bear for Polanski will expected be seen as a vigilance of oneness with the director." The German regressive Welt am Sonntag journal pronounced that whilst the Zurich movie legal holiday had brought Polanski disgrace, Berlin had "rehabilitated him, at slightest artistically".

In the loyal character of the Berlinale, a legal holiday that likes to broach surprises and has a domestic corner frequency seen elsewhere, the jury, that was led by the German executive Werner Herzog and enclosed the actress Renée Zellweger, awarded the tip Golden Bear prize, for most appropriate film, to an outsider. The Turkish movie Bal (Honey), by executive Semih Kaplanoglu, tells the story of a child who goes in poke of his blank beekeeper father. The movie draws courtesy to environmental problems close to the Black Sea coast.

Son of Babylon, by British-based Iraqi executive Mohamed Al-Daradji, that was filmed on place opposite 7 Iraqi cities and chronicles the odyssey of a child and his parents mother in poke of his lost father, cumulative the Peace endowment and the Amnesty International award.One of the documentary highlights at the 10-day eventuality was Exit Through the Gift Shop, a movie by the British travel artist Banksy, that offers an innovative discernment in to the travel art stage in Britain and the United StatesUS. Festival organisers insisted that Banksy, who appears in the movie usually in conformation and with a sheltered voice, was benefaction at his own premiere but was incognito.

There was no endowment for the underline The Killer Inside Me by British executive Michael Winterbottom, that captivated most critique for the impassioned violence.