Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov won the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, for his movie "Faust," defeating submissions from Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg and George Clooney. The jury -- led by U.S. filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, whose "Black Swan" was in the competition last year -- opted for Sokurov's free adaptation of the Goethe tragedy. It's the fourth in a series on the theme of power, the first three being portrayals of Hitler, Lenin and Japan's late Emperor Hirohito.Michael Fassbender won the best-actor trophy for his role as the solitary sex addict in Steve McQueen's "Shame." Recognized as the festival's best actress was Deannie Yip for "A Simple Life," the story of a Chinese housekeeper who moves to an old people's home after decades serving one family. The best director award went to China's Shangjun Cai for "Ren Shan Ren Hai," a last-minute addition to the competition lineup. Italy came away with a prize too: "Terraferma" by Emanuele Crialese, the story of a Sicilian fishing village coping with an influx of African migrants. Polanski had been in the running with "Carnage," adapted from a play by Yasmina Reza and filmed entirely in an apartment interior. Starring Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet, it showed two sets of parents having a meeting after one kid beat and hurt another. Clooney was competing with "The Ides of March," a pitiless portrayal of U.S. politics, with himself in the role of a smooth senator. Cronenberg's entry, "A Dangerous Method," also stars Fassbender as well as Keira Knightley, and tells of Carl Jung's entanglement with a young Russian patient.
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