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"It is with great pleasure that we present the award for best actor/actress to Martin Rohde in HEIKO'S WORLD. HEIKO'S WORLD is in many ways an unusual film and Martin Rohde is the "primus inter pares" of a wonderful ensemble of sad and valiant losers, of bizarre individuals who fought unselfishly against cold, poverty, humiliation, and loneliness. They fought for the vestige of a dream and hope for a better life. Heiko would do anything for his mother (played magnificently by Heike Hanold-Lynch), except that in the process he digs himself deeper and deeper into a hole, is cheated and betrayed. This is tragic and bitter, but Martin Rohde manages a fine balancing act that lends his character dignity and wit. Heiko remains calm, very calm - "Heiko will take care of it, Mama!" - but whenever he says this, we know it won't go well. He will get his revenge, though - in his own way, with outsize tennis strokes, but more importantly with exceptional technique when playing darts. And this is how this perpetual loser, this pitiful and annoying survivor, becomes a minor winner through his great victory at darts in the pubs of Berlin. The way Martin Rohde plays it, unpretentious, precise, touching, witty, and with a convincing affinity for the world of darts, the sausage stands and corner pubs and the people who frequent them - we think it's absolutely worth seeing. Congratulations, Martin Rohde!"