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Winner

The Montblanc Young Directors Award 2005 goes to Sebastijan Horvat and his ensemble from the Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana. His production of "Alamut" by Vladimir Bartol in an adaptation by Dusan Jovanovic is a largely successful transposition into the dramatic idiom of a theme which remains dismayingly contemporary.
The jury members Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler, Thaddaeus Ropac, Peter Simonischek and Wolfgang Kralicek honoured the piece with a prize of EUR 10,000 as well as a Montblanc Max Reinhardt Pen exclusively designed for this purpose.

Winner

The jury commented their decision with the following: the protagonists convincingly transformed the persons of the novel into dramatic characters displaying that quality of "fated-ness" historically associated with the drama. The production helps one to understand how easily human beings can be manipulated.