The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is back for its 60th edition in what is its 80th year since its foundation. Double anniversary alert!
A deep dive into the long history of the Czech fest can unearth all sorts of special memories and surprises among the winners of its main Crystal Globe award and beyond.
We don’t have time to go through it all. But in honor of the 60th edition of KVIFF, running July 3-11, THR decided to shine a spotlight on six of the hidden, and not-so-hidden, cinematic gems that have won the main festival award.
In 1954, the Hollywood blacklist and Salt of the Earth came to town
In a sign of the Karlovy Vary festival’s early interest in looking beyond Eastern Europe, it programmed Herbert J. Biberman’s drama about Mexican workers at a zinc mine who call a general strike.
