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February 21, 2011, Monday
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IRANIAN director Asghar Farhadi's "Nader and Simin, A Separation," a drama that centers on a disintegrating marriage, won the best movie honor and swept the acting awards at the Berlin film festival on Saturday.
A six-member jury led by actress Isabella Rossellini handed the movie the top Golden Bear prize and its ensemble cast, including Peyman Moadi and Leila Hatami, both the best actor and the best -actress awards.
"I never would have thought that I would win this prize," Farhadi said as he collected the Golden Bear.
He added that it offers "a very good opportunity to think of the people of my country - the country I grew up in, the country where I learned my stories - a great people."
The film highlights a clash between traditional and modern ways of living and thinking, as well as class differences.
It chronicles a wife's unsuccessful petition for a divorce, which she seeks when her husband refuses to leave Iran with her and her daughter. He worries about leaving behind his father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.
The wife then moves out and the man hires a pregnant, pious young woman who agrees to take care of his father, without telling her husband. One afternoon, an argument is followed by the woman suffering a miscarriage - setting off a chain of events that shakes the family.
Iran has been in the spotlight at the Berlin festival because the jury's seventh member, Iranian director Jafar Panahi, was unable to come after being sentenced to six years in jail on charges of working against the ruling system.
"I would like to recall Jafar Panahi - I really think his problem will be solved, and I would like him to stand here next year," said Farhadi, through an interpreter.
Farhadi was honored as best director in Berlin two years ago for his previous movie, "About Elly."
This year's best director honor went to Germany's Ulrich Koehler for "Sleeping Sickness," a film about an aid worker long based in Africa and his increasingly alienated wife.
A six-member jury led by actress Isabella Rossellini handed the movie the top Golden Bear prize and its ensemble cast, including Peyman Moadi and Leila Hatami, both the best actor and the best -actress awards.
"I never would have thought that I would win this prize," Farhadi said as he collected the Golden Bear.
He added that it offers "a very good opportunity to think of the people of my country - the country I grew up in, the country where I learned my stories - a great people."
The film highlights a clash between traditional and modern ways of living and thinking, as well as class differences.
It chronicles a wife's unsuccessful petition for a divorce, which she seeks when her husband refuses to leave Iran with her and her daughter. He worries about leaving behind his father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.
The wife then moves out and the man hires a pregnant, pious young woman who agrees to take care of his father, without telling her husband. One afternoon, an argument is followed by the woman suffering a miscarriage - setting off a chain of events that shakes the family.
Iran has been in the spotlight at the Berlin festival because the jury's seventh member, Iranian director Jafar Panahi, was unable to come after being sentenced to six years in jail on charges of working against the ruling system.
"I would like to recall Jafar Panahi - I really think his problem will be solved, and I would like him to stand here next year," said Farhadi, through an interpreter.
Farhadi was honored as best director in Berlin two years ago for his previous movie, "About Elly."
This year's best director honor went to Germany's Ulrich Koehler for "Sleeping Sickness," a film about an aid worker long based in Africa and his increasingly alienated wife.
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