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BERLIN — Director Jose Padilha's "Elite Squad," a movie about police violence in Rio de Janeiro that caused controversy in Brazil, won the top Golden Bear award over the weekend at the annual Berlin film festival.

The movie, about the shady workings of Rio's Special Operations Police Battalion, faced an attempt by Brazilian police to keep it out of theaters at the time of its release last year.

"Elite Squad" is not a documentary, but claims to tell the true stories of 12 former officers from the black-uniformed paramilitary unit whose insignia — a dagger-impaled skull — strikes fear into residents of Rio's shanty towns.

The festival's jury grand prize, which comes with a runner-up Silver Bear, went to Oscar-winning U.S. director Errol Morris' "Standard Operating Procedure," a documentary on the scandal over prisoner abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.