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British television personality, Sir David Frost, earned an International Emmy for his journalistic career. The TV presenter, who has spent almost five decades on-screen interviewing the worlds foremost thinkers, politicians and artists, highlighted the annual awards show that saw British productions win five of the ten categories, while Brazil earned its first ever golden trophy. English actors Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw won top individual honors, and the German mini-series The Wolves of Berlin won the statue for best TV movie/mini-series. The 59-year old Walters, who has recently appeared on the big screen in the Harry Potter films and opposite Meryl Streep in the musical Mamma Mia, was chosen best actress for A Short Stay in Switzerland, in which she portrays a British doctor with an incurable neurological disease who seeks assisted suicide in a Zurich clinic.Whishaw, 29, starred in the five-part BBC thriller Criminal Justice as a young man accused of murdering a woman after a drunken and drug-filled night on the town that he is unable to remember.The three-part The Wolves of Berlin follows the story of a youth gang from its formation amid the devastation of post-war Berlin in 1948 through the fall of the Wall in 1989. Brazil's first-ever International Emmy came in the telenovela category for India: A Love Story. The TV Globo production shot on location at the Taj Mahal and other scenic Indian locales follows the forbidden love affair between young Indians from different castes.The Academy chose Denmark's The Protectors about a special unit within the Danish Security and Intelligence Service as the best drama series, while selecting Japan's Hoshi Shinichi's Short Shorts as best comedy.In the non-scripted entertainment category, the Dutch production, The Phone, won top honors. The series plunges the first person to pick up a hidden phone ringing into a race across a major city following numerous clues, as a helicopter follows the chase. The winners were selected from among 41 nominees from 17 countries competing in 10 categories for International Emmys, honoring excellence in TV programming produced outside the US.Also earning a career prize on the night was the chief of German broadcaster ZDF, Markus Schachter. Over the last 25 years, Schachter has been instrumental in positioning ZDF as a leader both in the German television market and throughout the world.
