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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2017

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017

Six Close Encounters

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6 films · 2 reviews

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The Blue Lagoon

Shipwrecked kids fall in love.

(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Randal Kleiser; Writer: Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Douglas Day Stewart; Stars: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Jeffrey Kleiser, Bradley Pryce, Chad Timmerman, Gert Jacoby, Alex Hamilton, Richard Evanson)

The Mirror

A dying man in his forties remembers his past and, through it, the recent history of Russia.

(Country: USSR; Year: 1975; Director: Andrey Tarkovsky)

A Short Film About Killing

A 20 year old man murders a taxi driver, and is convicted and hanged.

(Country: Poland; Year: 1987; Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski)

The Searchers

Review preview for The Searchers

A vital part of your film education.

Keith Hennessey Brown · 4.5 out of 5
A lone man spends years obsessively searching for his kidnapped niece until it becomes unclear what he might do if he finds her.

(Country: US; Year: 1956; Director: John Ford; Writer: Frank S. Nugent, based on the novel by Alan Le May.; Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Johnston Clayton, Natalie Wood.)

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The Spirit Of The Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena)

Review preview for The Spirit Of The Beehive

Although an undoubted classic of the period - and featuring one of cinema's best child performances in Torrent - the allusive and elusive style of the film is difficult to engage with.

Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
A screening of James Whale's Frankenstein alters how an impressionable young girl sees her world in 1940s Spain.

(Country: Spain; Year: 1973; Director: Víctor Erice; Writer: Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, Francisco J Querejeta; Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Ketty de la Cámara, Estanis González, José Villasante, Juan Margallo, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo)

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WR: Mysteries Of The Organism (W.R. - Misterije Organizma)

A young Yugoslavian woman has an affair with a Russian skater.

(Country: Yugoslavia, Germany; Year: 1971; Director: Dušan Makavejev)