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One War Wins Critics Choice Award
Vera Glagoleva’s One War wins the Terra-Australis Australian Film Critics Award for Best Film at this year’s Russian Resurrection Film Festival.
Having wrapped festivities for another year in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the Russian Resurrection Film Festival has announced that the World War II drama One War (pictured) has won the Terra-Australis Australian Film Critics Award for Best Film.
It was a unanimous decision for the Russian Resurrection critics circle to award former actress turned director Vera Glagoleva's One War the top honours at this year's festival.
A deeply moving drama, One War brings to light an unknown chapter in the history of World War II, of five women who were exiled to a small island in Northern Russia, from territories occupied by the German Army along with their children who were fathered by German soldiers.
Chair of the 2010 Terra-Australis Australian Film Critics Award, Dr Greg Dolgopolov, said that it was the combination of the film's subject matter and the sensitivity with which it was told that made One War a winner. "Among modern films about WWII, Vera Glagoleva's One War stands apart in many ways. Exploring themes that have been a taboo subject for years, the film strikes a very painful and dramatic chord," Dolgopolov says.
Acclaimed director Andrei Kavun's Kandahar and Aleksei Popogrebsky's How I Ended This Summer, both garnered special mentions - but it was the unusualness of One War, and its emotional intensity which saw it selected as the overall best film this year.
Voting is still open for the FILMINK Viewers' Choice award, which will be announced at the close of the festival. Click here to vote in our poll.
The Russian Resurrection Film Festival is still running in Perth (September 8-15), Adelaide (September 9-15) and Canberra (September 15-19). One War can still be seen at the festival in Canberra and screens September 15. For more information, visit the festival website.