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10:30 am PDT 7/7/2018
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Nick Holdsworth
Radu Jude's warning of the threat of fascism "I do not worry if we go down in history as barbarians" takes the Grand Prix of the Czech festival.
The powerful story of the Romanian director Radu Jude about a 1941 atrocity perpetrated by the country's military I Do not Care If we go down in history as barbarians won the grand prize the closing of the 53rd edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday
A premonitory warning of the dangers of fascism in Europe – in a continent where anti-immigrant extremist populist governments in Hungary, Poland and Italy are already sparking controversy – the film also won the Europa Cinemas Film Award for Best European Film
The Crystal Globe of the film is accompanied by a prize of $ 25,000
The main jury of the contest also awarded a special prize of $ 15,000 to Argentina / Brazil / France co-production by Ana Katz Sueno Florianopolis on the summer holidays of a dysfunctional family the. The best actress of the film is the Mercedes Moran
Best directed by Olmo Omerzu for Czech coproduction Winter Flies.
Moshe Folkenflik wins best actor for his role in the Israeli film Redemption and special mentions of the jury for the Russian Jumpman of the Russian Ivan Tverdovskiy and the History of the love of the Slovenian director Sonja Prosenc
. the competition, the grand prize of $ 15,000 went to the live performance of Kyrgyz director Elizaveta Stishova of a fractured family trying to learn to live together, Suleiman Mountain . Blossom Valley
The best documentary was the scary story of the Russian Vitaly Mansky, who told how Vladimir Putin had gained power in Russia Putin's Witnesses. The Austrian-Swiss co-production of Daniel Zimmermann Walden on an Austrian forest won the special jury prize.
The festival's popular Pravo Audience Award – where members of the public voted – went to special screening of Graham Levinson's film in 1988 Rain Man starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman [19659005] At the closing of the festival on Saturday evening, British actor Robert Pattinson received the prestigious President of the Festival award, handed over from Karlovy Vary topper, the Czech actor Jiri Bartoska
The 54th edition of the IFF from Karlovy Vary will take place from 28 June to 6 July 2019.
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