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John Garfield, Star of ‘Body and Soul’ and ‘Force of Evil,’ to Be Subject of Tribute at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
The 59th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival will feature a tribute to 1940s American screen star John Garfield.
“We are excited to remember the exceptional but somewhat forgotten career of a pioneer of what, in his day, was an unusually realistic approach to acting by showing 10 titles,” KVIFF’s artistic director and the tribute’s curator Karel Och said. In crime films with a socially conscious subplot about young people’s painful search for their place in Depression-era society, Garfield developed his natural ability to express an uncommon level of authenticity and truthfulness in any role. Unlike others who collaborated with the authorities and denounced their colleagues in order to protect their own skins, the exhausted Garfield, already suffering poor health, did not “name names.” The dark noir thriller “He Ran All the Way” (1951) would be the final entry in the filmography of an actor for whom it was as important to sacrifice everything for the work he loved as it was to unflinchingly express his political convictions and humanist ideals.
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