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How the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Created a Haven for Cinema in a World of Trouble
Hidden within a valley range west of Prague in the northwest Czech Republic, the spa town of Karlovy Vary was offering a kind of haven and retreat centuries before the film festival — or really, the very art form of cinema — came into being. But that sense …