Wolfskinder La Biennale di Venezia - P 2013
German director Rick Ostermann has won the Munich Film Festival’s acclaimed The Bridge prize for his debut film, Wolfskinder.
The period drama is set in 1946 and follows a group of war orphans struggling to survive in the wreckage of post-World War II Europe.
Ostermann will be honored at a gala ceremony in Munich on July 3.
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Previous winners of The Bridge prize include Danish director Susanne Bier for her Oscar-winning feature In a Better World and fellow Oscar-winner Henckel von Donnersmarck for The Lives of Others.
Named for Bernhard Wicki‘s 1959 antiwar film The Bridge, the festival honor is traditionally given to filmmakers whose work has a strong political message.
The 2014 Munich Film Festival runs June 27 through July 7.
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