BERLINALE PRIZES
The 55th Berlin International Film Festival has announced the prizes for this year’s event.
The top prize, the Golden Bear, was awarded to U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Carmen in Khayelitsha, South Africa, 2004), by Marc Dornford-May.
“Director Mark Dornford-May’s adaptation [of Bizet's Carmen] is based on his own thorough analysis of the opera. Transposing a previous stage production into a feature-length film, his screenplay sets the story of the love affair between Carmen and Don Jose against the hardship suffered by those living in a South African township. For the film’s soundtrack, the opera’s lyrics were translated into Xhosa.”
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