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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