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A tragic screen portrait of Edith Piaf kicks off the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, a fitting opening to a competition where women, many of them in trouble, play a central role.

Alongside them in the main competition lineup of 26 films comes the theme of war, with Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima," Israeli production "Beaufort" and "The Counterfeiters," about a Nazi plan to ruin Britain's economy.

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