Morzé received the award on Friday evening in Berlin for his role in the historical film “The Fox”. In it he plays an Austrian soldier named Franz who raises a young fox during World War II.
The Turkish-German director Ayşe Polat received the award for the best screenplay for her political thriller “Im dead Winkel”. When presenting the award, Polat dedicated it to “all women who courageously fight for justice and freedom.”
“In the Blind Spot” is about the difficulties faced by a crew who want to film a documentary in northeastern Turkey and are observed while doing so. Strange incidents occur.
The German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer made an urgent appeal to filmmakers. “When I came back 14 years ago, I couldn’t have imagined what was going on in public now. That’s how it started back then,” said the 102-year-old on Friday evening in Berlin.
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Friedländer was accompanied on stage by director Wim Wenders and human rights activist Düzen Tekkal. “There are a lot of storytellers in this room. You have a responsibility to use the power of film to ensure that something like this never happens again,” she said.
“I ask you to support me so that history does not repeat itself.” It is now in everyone’s hands to shape their lives. “We can no longer change what happened, but it must never, ever happen again. I ask you: be human.”
There was a standing ovation and thunderous applause from the audience for her speech. The 102-year-old Friedländer is one of the few living witnesses to the persecution and murder of Jews during the Nazi era.