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Russia's Konstantin Lavronenko wins Cannes best actor
(AFP)
Updated: 2007-05-28 09:36
Russian actor Konstantin Lavronenko (L) and Swedish actress Maria
Bonnevie pose during a photocall for Russian director Andrei
Zviaguintsev's film 'Izgnanie' (The Banishment) at the 60th edition of
the Cannes Film Festival, southern France, 18 May 2007.[AFP]
Russian actor Konstantin Lavronenko won the Cannes film festival's Best
Actor prize Sunday for his role in "The Banishment" by Andrei Zviagintsev.
In the intensely emotional movie, touching on death and remorse,
Lavronenko, 46, plays the role of a man deeply committed to the family
who, on revisiting his father's home, learns his wife is pregnant and
believes she has a lover.
Zviagintsev accepted the prize on behalf of the actor, who was unable to
catch a last-minute flight to France because the Cannes jury deliberated
until shortly before the ceremony.
"I am delighted for Konstantin, more than delighted -- he deserved this
prize," he said.
"I would like to thank the jury, the festival organisers and the public.
I am very happy."
Lavronenko, who starred in the director's previous film, "The Return,"
broke into film after building his career in the theatre.
That picture, in which Lavronenko played an absent father who re-enters
the lives of his two sons more than a decade after disappearing, won the
Golden Lion at the Venice film festival in 2003.
Lavronenko recently appeared in the British television series "Archangel"
with the latest James Bond, Daniel Craig, as well as the Polish film
"Mistrz" by Piotr Trzaskalski.
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