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Karlovy Vary Sets Franz Kafka Retrospective For 58th Edition; Fest Will Screen Digitally Restored Version Of 1978 Czech Title ‘Shadows Of A Hot Summer’


This year’s edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is set to present a retrospective on Franz Kafka and his influence on cinema, dubbed The Wish To Be A Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema. It will examine how the influential Czech writer has impacted filmmakers from Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Ousmane Sembene, Jan Nemec and Steven Soderbergh.

It will examine how the influential Czech writer has impacted filmmakers from Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Ousmane Sembene, Jan Nemec and Steven Soderbergh. Trojan is one of the most frequently cast Czech actors in the film, television and theater spheres in the last 25 years, with credits including Seducer, In The Shadow, Charlatan and Agnieszka Holland’s Burning Bush. The film is set two years after World War II on an isolated farstead in the Beskid Mountains inhabited by Ondrej Baran and his family.

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