The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has walked an improbable path of occupation, compromise, and survival. Its first edition was held in 1946, the year after Czechoslovakia was restored from Nazi rule and weeks before the first Cannes Film Festival. By 1958, after a coup and ten years of state communism, it was designated a category-A film festival by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations—the tier denoting the highest level of international impact. The next year, the Soviet Union dictated that Karlovy Vary take place on alternating years with the Moscow International Film Festival until 1994, two years after […] Source
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