Berlinale: Meltem Kaptan wins acting award
Created: 02/16/2022, 20:16
Actress Meltem Kaptan wins the Silver Bear for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush.
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In Germany it is her first role in the cinema: Meltem Kaptan plays the mother of the former Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz.
For this, the comedienne, who lives in Cologne, now wins the most important acting prize at the Berlinale.
Berlin - The actress Meltem Kaptan has won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.
She is being honored for her leading role in the drama "Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush", as the Berlin Film Festival announced on Wednesday evening.
The film tells how the mother of longtime Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz tries to free her son from the US prison camp.
Kaptan was born in Gütersloh and lives in Cologne.
The film's screenwriter, Laila Stieler, also received a Silver Bear.
German filmmaker Andreas Dresen directed the film.
For example, the two had also worked together on their last film "Gundermann".
Her new film is scheduled to hit theaters at the end of April.
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