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boat to Italy. Finally, he reaches Sangatte, the last waystation before Britain, where
he will subsequently succeed in becoming a dishwasher in a restaurant and obtain
subsidiary protection until he reaches his legal majority. For him, Sangatte exists
only as an episode in his journey, the last station as he enters the polis where he
will join the ranks of the third world underclass. To get there, the risk he took was
(merely) his life. The sympathy he arouses among the film’s spectators makes them
believe that, beyond his misery, they share a common humanity. For this moment
of fictional illusion in our moral world, the film surely deserves the Golden Bear,
the Prize of Peace, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, all of which it received
in Berlin in 2003.
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