Two prizes were awarded at the Berlin Film Festival here today to a documentary film about Israel, hailing the movie as the best documentary of the year. The awards, with gold ribbons, were given to the Ifag Film Company, of Frankfurt-am-Main, which produced the film, and the director, Herbert Victor.
Dr. Gerhard Schroder, West Germany’s Minister of the Interior, handed to representatives of the film company and to Mr. Victor the golden ribbons and cash prizes. The firm received 47,500 deutschemarks as its prize, and Mr. Victor got 7, 500 marks.
The film, in color, entitled “Paradise in a Furnace, ” records a trip through Israel, and presents the State of Israel as “the oldest country but the youngest state.” It stresses that Israel is “the cradle of religion as well as the crucible of races. “
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