Director Jose Padilha collected the Golden Bear in Berlin
Congrats!!
The Elite Squad, a violent tale of corrupt drug-squad officers in Brazil, has won the Golden Bear, the top prize at the annual Berlin Film Festival.
This weekend, the Berlin International Film Festival concluded with its awards ceremony. Christina Tilmann approves the jury's decision to give its top prize to José Padilha: "Taken together, the Golden Bear for 'Tropa de Elite' [Elite Troop] and the jury prize for 'Standard Operating Procedure' turn this into a kind of Nobel Peace Prize of film.
