PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Pageant was kicking off its 59th version on Friday with honors for American actor Peter Sarsgaard and actress Vicky Krieps from Luxembourg.
Sarsgaard and Krieps are each slated to obtain the Pageant President’s Award on the opening ceremony.
The competition will display screen “Shattered Glass,” a 2003 film directed by Billy Ray, for which Sarsgaard was nominated for a Golden Globe. To honor Krieps, who acquired a European Movie Award for greatest actress for her function of the rebellious Empress Sisi in “Corsage” (2022), the film “Love Me Tender” (2025) can be proven on the competition.
American actress Dakota Johnson, who will obtain the identical award on Sunday, was set to current her two newest motion pictures, “Splitsville” and “Materialists.”
The competition will shut on July 12 with an honor for Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård recognising his excellent contribution to world cinema. He’ll current his new film, “Sentimental Value” directed by by Joachim Trier, that received the Grand Prix at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant.
In an anticipated occasion, Hollywood actor Michael Douglas arrives on the competition current a newly restored print of the 1975 Oscar-winning film “ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which was directed by the late Czech director Miloš Forman and which was produced by Douglas and Saul Zaentz.
The grand jury will take into account 12 motion pictures for the highest prize, the Crystal Globe.
