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|  Subject: Berlin: Police brutality drama wins  Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:58 pm | |
| A blood-soaked Brazilian drama about police brutality, "The Elite Squad", beat out favourites from Hollywood and Britain to win the Golden Bear for best picture Saturday at the 58th Berlin Film Festival.
Director Jose Padilha based his first feature film on actual accounts of violence and corruption among the security forces in Rio de Janeiro.
"The Elite Squad", which sharply divided critics and whose win came as a surprise to many festival-goers, was a major box office hit in Brazil. But some critics accused Padilha of glorifying the brutality he aimed to condemn.
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