A team of several dozen people is preparing the administrative facilities, cash registers, changing rooms and the press center. In front of the hotel there are giant statues with a crystal globe in their arms, there is also a red carpet in front of the main entrance.
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Posters with stars
Festival posters with the main guests of the festival are also being prepared, which will be placed around Thermal and in other places in the city center.
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The Karlovy Vary Film Festival will take place this year after a one-year break due to the coronavirus epidemic from 20 to 28 August.
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The main guests will be famous personalities of world cinematography and winners of many awards – American actor Johnny Depp, British actor Michael Caine and actor and director Ethan Hawke. The festival will be inaugurated on Friday evening before Thermal by the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, composed by the Spiral Theater in Prague, accompanied by the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra.
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The summer cinema will remain closed this year and several floors of the Thermal Hotel due to the ongoing renovation of the rooms. Visitors will be able to use cheap accommodation in a traditional and popular tent town in Rolava.
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With tapes, there will also be test sites
This year will be accompanied by measures against the spread of coronavirus. Each participant will receive a hand strap that will allow him to move around the festival events. Visitors will receive the tape on the basis of a valid EU certificate with a QR code, which they will receive by proving vaccination, illness or passing a negative test at a certified workplace.
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It will be mandatory to wear mouth protection indoors, and disinfection stands will be prepared for participants. The festival will include test sites and a vaccination center, which will offer the possibility of vaccination against covid-19 with a single vaccine Janssen without prior registration.
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