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Still from the film ‘Ida’.

Europe has surrendered to the darkest journey of Polish collaboration with the Nazis who narrates the film Ida , Pawel Pawlikowski, who has become the big winner at the 27th European Film Awards, held tonight in Riga (Latvia), to get the three most important awards (film, direction and script), plus photography and the public. With Ida , shot in black and white, Pawlikowski, 57, returned to his native Warsaw to tell the Polish collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust, in a film that has open wounds among his countrymen .

Ida is a novice who decides, before becoming a nun, visit her only living relative, an aunt, implacable judge of the communist regime, the plunge in a secret past and full of persecution and revenge . “We can not forget or erase”, has defended Pawlikowski, a Pole who emigrated from young to UK and has gone tonight so often the stage of the National Opera in Riga that took it as a joke. “It’s a good idea this democracy,” he said upon receiving the award voting public. “This is really a fantastic evening, also for Poland,” said the climb for the award for best film. Ida has set great titles like Leviathan , Andrey Zvyagintsev Russian; Winter sleep , Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), Nymphomaniac , Danish director Lars von Trier, or Turist , the Swedish Ruben Östlund.

On this feast of European cinema, with little room for what we do not take the name of Ida, just a gap opened actors. France’s Marion Cotillard, absent from the gala, won the award for best actress for Two days, one night , the Dardenne brothers, a category which also competed for the Spanish Marián Alvarez The wound . Also Timothy Spall, best actor for his stunning interpretation of the life of British painter JMW Turner in the film Mr. Turner , directed Mike Leigh. “This can not be considered a competition between actors. It all depends on taste and luck,” said Spall to collect the award.

The Spanish presence was empty. None of the candidates managed to win the prize in racing. Besides Marián Álvarez, Paco León also the award for best comedy was by Carmina and Amen , award went to the hands of the Italian film only uccide mafia d’estate , Pierfrancesco Diliberto. The Discovery Award, which values ​​the new talents, and two Spanish opting tapes, 10,000 km , of Carlos Marques, and The wound , Fernando Franco, was stop the Ukrainian film The Tribe , of Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy. Short of Spanish Jorge López Navarrete, Small concrete block with tousled hair containing sea , also had luck in the prize.

The public who attended the gala with honors the lady of the New Wave , the Belgian Agnès Varda, who received the award for lifetime achievement. Varda, 86, director of over 50 titles ( Le bonheur , Vagabond or Cléo from 5 to 7 ), had be helped by Wim Wenders, the president of the European Film Academy, on stage, but once there, his powerful voice prevailed in this building of the National Opera of Riga. Varda reminded the women working in the film industry and called for help for those young people trying to break into this profession. Also the British director Steve McQueen ( Hunger , Shame and 12 Years a Slave ) received the award for his expertise behind the camera. Another important presence has been the Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann, sitting front row at the stalls, who, even without receiving a special award, was one of the great stars of the evening.

History

Film: Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland) .
Address: Pawel Pawlikowski by Ida (Poland)
Guion. Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz by Ida (Poland)
. Comedy: The only uccide mafia d’estate , Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Italy)
Actress. Marion Cotillard, for Two days, one night , brothers . Dardenne (Belgium)
Actor: Tymothy Spall, for Mr. Turner Mike Leigh (UK)
. Photo: Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal Ida (Poland)
Assembly. Justine Wright . Locke (UK)
Music: Mica Levi by Under the skin, Jonathan Glazer (UK, USA and Switzerland).
Sound: Joakim Sundström, for Starred up, David Mackenzie (UK)
Discovery Award. The Tribe , of Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (Ukraine .)
Documentary: Master the Universe, Marc Bauder (Germany)
Animation:. The art of happiness , Alessandro Rak (Italy) .
Sh ort: The chicken , of a Gunjak (Germany)
Audience Award. Ida , Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland)