Liev Schreiber was the first to arrive at the festival on Friday evening, who at a press conference presented the activities of the BlueCheck Ukraine project, of which he is a co-founder.
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At the same time, it is his personal topic, the family of the director’s mother has ancestors in the Ukrainian Jewish community.
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Liev Schreiber
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At the press conference, the actor also urged people to verify information from the media. “There is truth in the game. Disinformation has become a dangerous new idea, both in America and abroad. And I think Putin is counting on this, chaos and disinformation. So we have to be cautious, we have to be suspicious, verify information from the media,” Schreiber said.
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The arrival of Australian film and theater star Geoffrey Rush aroused great fan interest. He arrived in Karlovy Vary on Tuesday, and in the following days he presented three of his films, namely The King’s Speech, Zári and Quills – By the Marquis de Sade.
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Geoffrey Rush greets fans outside the Thermal Hotel.
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Geoffrey Rush celebrated his 71st birthday at the festival.
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In addition, the first performance was released on July 6, when the actor celebrated his 71st birthday, to which the full Great Hall of the Thermal Hotel, the center of the festival, applauded him.
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A day later, on Wednesday evening, the representative of the tough guy Benicio Del Toro arrived at the festival. He, too, presented his films at the festival, first the cult classic Traffic and then, on Saturday, the Usual Suspects.
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Before that, he greeted fans in front of Thermal and signed dozens of autographs.
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Benicio Del Toro greets fans.
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He signed dozens of autographs in front of the Thermal Hotel.
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The main Czech star of the 56th year was Bolek Polívka, who received the KV IFF President’s Award at the closing ceremony.
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“This is such a balancing act that one looks back and looks in the rearview mirror after the carom. And you can see there what was there before what he committed,” he told Novinkám.cz.
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The actor greeted the fans already on Friday, when he presented the film Forgotten Light, for which he himself received the Crystal Globe in the past, in the Great Hall of Thermal.
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Bolek Polívka with his wife on the red carpet
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In the Great Hall of the Thermal Hotel, he presented the film Forgotten Light.
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Foreign stars also took home prizes from the festival. Geoffrey Rush won the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema, Benicio Del Toro also received the KV IFF President’s Award.
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The closing ceremony of the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 9, 2022. Pictured is Geoffrey Rush.
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Among the special guests of the festival were Jiřina Bohdalová and Dagmar Havlová, Tereza Brodská in Karlovy Vary baptized the book Moje máma Jana Brejchová. Hana Vagnerová also arrived, who presented the long-awaited film Hranice lásky here.
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Hana Vagnerová was a guest of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. where she arrived with the film Hranice lásky.
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Hana Vagnerová with KV MF President Jiří Bartoška
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There was Iva Janžurová, who arrived with a delegation of Miroslav Krobot’s new film The Big Premiere and who is also the main star of the new festival soundtrack, as well as rappers Orion, Vladimir 518 and Mike Trafik, who came to the festival with the PSH documentary The Neverending Story.
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It won the festival audience and won the prestigious Prava Audience Award.
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The next 57th Karlovy Vary IFF will take place from June 30 to July 8, 2023.
Rappers PSH, from left Mike Trafik, Orion and Vladimir 518
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Iva Janžurová and Miroslav Krobot presented the new film Grand Premiere to the festival audience.
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Tereza Brodská presented the book Moje máma Jana Brejchová at the festival. Jiřina Bohdalová was one of the guests at the baptism.
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