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Chinese policeman wins best actor at Shanghai film awards
2008-06-23
SHANGHAI (AFP) - A policeman from northeast China with no previous acting experience has won the best actor prize at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival. Ma Guowei said he drew on more than a decade of experience as a police officer in the city of Harbin to play a cop who must defuse a bomb for the first time in the film "Old Fish", which also won the Jury Grand Prix. "I'm very nervous," Ma told the audience as he was awarded the prize at a ceremony on Sunday night, the Xinhua state news agency reported. The festival's top prize, the Jin Jue -- or the golden goblet -- went to first-time Russian director Vladimir Kott's film "Mukha" about a teenage girl and the sudden appearance of her father. Shanghai-born director Wong Kar Wai headed the festival's jury, which also included Chinese-American actress director Joan Chen. Lithuania's Maris Martinsons won the best director award for "Loss" about Lithuanians in Ireland. The nine-day festival, one of the largest of its kind in Asia, also featured a tribute to British film director Anthony Minghella, who died in March and was originally going to lead this year's jury.
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