{"id":21788,"date":"2026-09-12T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=21788"},"modified":"2026-09-12T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:35:45","slug":"danish-wwii-drama-wins-top-prize-at-venice-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=21788","title":{"rendered":"Danish WWII drama wins top prize at Venice festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>The Venice Film Festival awarded its top prize on Saturday to a Danish-made drama about a woman trying to hide a wartime relationship with a Nazi \u2014 the only feature film with a female director in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnknown Woman\u201d had been a major talking point of the festival due to its subject matter, which has rarely been explored in film, and because director May el-Toukhy was almost alone as a woman director in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Only one other woman \u2014 Israel\u2019s Rachel Szor, co-director of the chilling documentary \u201cNAZA\u201d about Israel\u2019s war on Gaza \u2014 was behind the 21 films vying for prizes at the star-studded closing ceremony in Venice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Woman Unknown\u2019 is about the female body as a battleground and a public matter. And at the same time, the film tells the tale of women who are invisible, unseen and voiceless,\u201d el-Toukhy told the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The head of this year\u2019s jury, American actor-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, had questioned the dearth of women-directed films on the opening day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a systemic problem,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Other winners \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The prize ceremony on Saturday wrapped up 10 days of often dark, disturbing programming that chief organiser Alberto Barbera had promised would echo the war-torn and anxiety-filled state of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The second-place Silver Lion went to \u201cPossible Love\u201d, a poignant relationship study by South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong, which was one of the most highly praised movies of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The best director prize went to Russian-born Ilya Khrzhanovsky for his vast, riotous and experimental cinema project \u201cDAU\u201d that chronicles the life of the troubled father of the Soviet nuclear programme, Lev Landau.<\/p>\n<p>The over three-hour film began two decades ago and involved 2,000 people, many of them actors who lived for months in character on a full-scale reconstruction of a secret Soviet research institute as Khrzhanovsky filmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everyone believed that the movie will be finished, but I always believed,\u201d he told the audience, while dedicating the prize to the people of Ukraine \u201cwho are fighting in this terrible war for their freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The best actor award went to John Malkovich for his role as a jaded CIA agent in dark comedy \u201cWild Horse Nine,\u201d which sees him take a break with a colleague on Easter Island in Chile ahead of the 1973 US-backed military coup there.<\/p>\n<p>Film magazine Variety said Malkovich was \u201cdrumming up\u00a0awards\u00a0buzz\u201d and tipped him for a possible first best actor Oscar at the next awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Best actress was picked up by Denmark\u2019s Mathilde Arcel who was cast in her first film role in \u201cWoman Unknown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She plays a bride-to-be who is desperately trying to hide the shame of a past relationship with a Nazi during occupied Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s a dream I really don\u2019t want to wake up,\u201d she told the audience as she clutched her prize tearfully on stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Gaza film \u2013\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAZA\u201d, by Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Szor, had been tipped by some critics for the top Golden Lion prize for best film after a record-breaking 25-minute ovation at its premiere on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It won the a special jury prize instead, an award handed out each year by the jury to recognise an outstanding work.<\/p>\n<p>In their 80-minute film, Abraham and Szor spoke to 24 different Israeli military or intelligence whistleblowers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza that have killed tens of thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Israeli intelligence officers we spoke with talked to us about how this mass killing is systemic: not by accident, but by design, actions of murder and policies that are based on the total dehumanisation of Palestinians,\u201d Abraham told the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film was described as an \u201curgent, gut-punch\u201d by film magazine Screen, while The Hollywood Reporter said it inspired \u201coutrage\u2026indignity as well. Most certainly disgust, on a profound level, for the current Israeli regime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military has criticised the use of anonymous testimonies in the film, saying on Friday the identities of the whistleblowers \u201ccannot be verified\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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