Master of Cinema 2006 | Internationales FilmFestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Master of Cinema Award

Laureates

Great cinema is art -

With the Master of Cinema Award, the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg honors directors who as authors have promoted the art of cinema both uncompromisingly and with artistic innovation, cinema artists who have created an author cinema with its own signature. This award is given to auteurs who create works of film art opposed to films which should be understood without a problem by everybody. Films that stand out from mainstream cinema like marvels of poetic "enchantment of reality" (Dr. Michael Kötz), auteur films that have the right to allow as much character as possible, free from all prototypes.

Since 1998, the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg has welcomed these outstanding creators of masterfully crafted cinematography:

:: Laureate 2006

2006

Master of Cinema Award
Aleksandr Sokurov

Laudation
It has rarely been so difficult for me, and at the same time so easy, to find words to describe what this cinema artist from Russia actually does in the 15 feature films and 17 documentaries, dreamworlds transported 32 times to the screen, dreamworlds even when they would normally be called documentary films. He has been asked what the difference is for him between a feature and documentary, and he replied that the difference lies in the tools you use: you are building the same house, but one is made with large stones, with massive elements, the other with quite fragile and transparent material (...).

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