Brevity is the soul of wit. -- Shakespeare
A Baby making lots of new friends in Bohemia
You are just landing in Karlovy Vary and flying past Angel Mountain. There is a ruin of an ancient castle on it and from the top there is a beautiful view of the whole area. If you looked to the south, you would see a pond and a small red-roofed cottage next to it. And maybe even me, grilling steaks 
Russell Crowe arrived in Karlovy Vary for the KVIFF
Russell Crowe : Oh my lord… Karlovy Vary is gorgeous
Every film festival allows us to mingle with the stars. It’s also an excellent opportunity to learn about future projects and get fresh scoops. While we can only know who’s invited to the festival once we get there, some big Hollywood stars are already confirmed as part of the festival. For instance, Russell Crowe will receive a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, an award that was already granted to stars such as Willem Dafoe, Robert DeNiro, and Julianne Moore.
Collider Is Going to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Here’s What We Are Most Excited About
At the end of the 1940s, Czechoslovakia put itself on the festival map with the Karlovy Vary International Festival, the first editions of which also took place in Mariánské Lázně (1946–1949). However, one of the lesser-known facts from this prestigious festival’s history is that in the 1950s, it became a haven for filmmakers shooting documentaries on social unrest or communist internationalism in the West.
The retrospective will remind us of Czechoslovakia’s ties to France, Italy and Germany precisely through the duality of this controversial gesture, which on the one hand linked the cultural policies of the communist parties across the Iron Curtain, and on the other hand exposed the isolationism of Czechoslovak documentary filmmaking, which ostentatiously ignored similar domestic protests on the authority of the Ministry of Information.
The screening will be accompanied by a discussion between Lucie Česálková, film historian Jindřiška Bláhová and international relations historian Daniela Kolenovská.
The discussion will be accompanied by these films: The Man We Love the Most, Something Changed in Midday, Long Live the Docker.
