Katja Riemann & Michael Shorr, actors
Report - Venice 2003, The Winners
Interview with Katja Riemann, Best Actress and Michael Shorr, awarded with the Special Jury Award during the 60th Venice Film Festival
by Federico Greco
Katja Riemann won the Volpi Cup as Best Actress in Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse [+see also:
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The actress, answering a question, explains and underlines that a film directed by a female director is not necessarily characterized by a female point of view.
The Special Jury Award went instead to the German Michael Shorr for his Schultze Gets De Blues [+see also:
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film profile]. A story in between drama and comedy, defined by the director "a mixture between melancholy on one side, and humour and irony on the other".