German film about secret police wins Oscar
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Germany's "The Lives of Others," a searing look at totalitarian powers once wielded by East German secret police, the Stasi, won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday.
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Kylie Minogue and Robert de Niro are to receive Germany's top showbiz honour, the Golden Camera.
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A British spy who used his cover as a passport officer to save thousands of Jews in Nazi Germany was honoured by the British embassy.
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A German film about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's final 12 days leapt to the top of the country's box office with nearly half a million tickets sold in its opening weekend, distributor Constantin Film said on Monday.
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The movie "Olga," the true tale of a Jew who was expelled from Brazil only to die in Nazi Germany, was chosen on Tuesday by Brazil's culture ministry to compete for a foreign film Oscar in 2005.
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Martin Scorsese's mob epic "The Departed" won best picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday and earned the filmmaker the directing prize that had eluded him throughout his illustrious career.
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A new documentary thick with tales of spies and secretive submarine landings traces how Nazis smuggled gold and cash from Europe to Argentina, a notorious safe haven for war criminals after World War II.
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The Oscar-winning German spy drama "The Lives of Others" is set to be remade as an English-language movie, Daily Variety reported in its Thursday edition.
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Martin Scorsese, the creator of "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver", finally won Oscar recognition on Sunday but he had to share the spotlight with politician Al Gore, regal actress Helen Mirren and Cinderella story Jennifer Hudson.
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Armed police went into action in the German city of Wuppertal after a woman reported seeing a masked criminal -- but having rushed to the scene, they were surprised to find not a crook, but a large stuffed toy.
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A German movie that depicts Adolf Hitler as a soft-spoken man who charms his secretary and lovingly plays with his pet Alsatian is turning into one of the country's most controversial films.
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Forty years after their  "Closely Watched Trains" won the Oscar for best  foreign-language film, director Jiri Menzel has adapted another  novel by the late Bohumil Hrabal, and history could well repeat  itself when Academy members get to see "I Served the King of  England," which screened here in competition.
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Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit spy thriller "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain."
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For his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Oscar-nominated drama "Downfall," Bruno Ganz received the top actor's prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
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More than 1,00,000 people went to see a big-budget film about the last days of Adolf Hitler on its opening night in Germany, prompting its makers to hail the groundbreaking production a success.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.
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Bruno Delbonnel, the cameraman for the French World War I epic "A Very Long Engagement," won the award for best cinematography in a feature film on Sunday in an industry prize given out two weeks before the Oscars.