When requested to image a black-tie opening ceremony for an enormous movie pageant, you’ll seemingly consider immaculately dressed folks clapping and having fun with glasses of wine or champagne earlier than or after the present. Additionally, you will seemingly think about a comedic monologue and laughter filling the occasion venue.
What you may not image is flames, ice skaters on stage or dancers flying by way of the air. However these are precisely the form of wild motion scenes that the opening ceremony of the Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition (KVIFF) within the Czech Republic has turn into identified for.
What has been known as Central Europe’s largest cinema social gathering of the summer season pulls out all of the stops to make sure that the viewers within the crowded oval-shaped cinema corridor of the Lodge Thermal, which may accommodate as much as round 1,150 friends, is on the sting of their seats and able to burst into thunderous applause and cheers.
Attendees of the opening occasion on Friday, June 28 are already questioning what the inventive crew of Michal and Šimon Caban has in retailer for them to kick off this 12 months’s 58th version of the pageant. However within the meantime, try THR‘s rundown of a few of the wildest and most shocking stunts featured on the Karlovy Range opening evening lately.
Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition 2016 opening ceremony
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Swimmers and a Horse on Stage
In 2016, the KVIFF opening ceremony had a number of action-packed parts in its featured choreography. For instance, dancers have been leaping over a ball and chairs projected onto a wall and ducking beneath stated ball, amongst different issues.
At one level, performers ended up having became bathing outfits earlier than seemingly leaping right into a pool to swim away.
After which, a jockey on a horse appeared on stage. You’ll be able to see a few of the motion from that 12 months at the beginning of the video under:
Wailing, Horror and a Bloody Orgy
The next 12 months, 2017, was time for on-stage horror on the KVIFF opening ceremony in a present that will need to have made the blood of at the least some viewers members freeze.
Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition opening ceremony 2017
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An actor portraying a butcher was seen sharpening a knife, whereas horror film-inspired scenes have been proven on a display screen. On the similar time, performers suspended in clear foils above the primary stage have been shaking and transferring round amid wails because the Karlovy Range symphony orchestra offered a sinister soundtrack. In the long run, the foils have been lined in (pretend) blood.
The decision on the time: a bloody good time. Try scenes of the present within the video under.
2016 KVIFF opening ceremony highlights
Anniversaries and Nostalgia
2018 was a busy 12 months for Czechs, and the KVIFF opening ceremony mirrored that. That 12 months wasn’t simply the centenary of the muse of Czechoslovakia in 1918 after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It additionally marked 50 years because the rebellion within the Prague Spring of 1968 and its suppression by the invading troops of the Warsaw Pact nations.
Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition opening ceremony 2018
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Plus, the native business was nonetheless coping with the current loss of life of Czechoslovak New Wave filmmaking icon Miloš Forman. So, no shock then that nostalgia, historic pictures, the purple, blue and white of the nation’s flag, and an enormous 100 have been all a part of the acrobatic opening ceremony motion.
Try the video under:
2018 KVIFF opening ceremony highlights
Excessive-flying Motion Turns Issues Upside Down
In 2019, female and male performers wearing fits have been suspended excessive above the stage to open the KVIFF festivities with power and an enormous bang.
Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition opening ceremony 2019
Courtesy of Movie Servis Competition Karlovy Range
They ran throughout columns and stairs projected onto a display screen – and so they even needed to run hanging upside-down. On the finish, the columns seemingly got here crashing down. What took for much longer to die down was the viewers’s pleasure and applause.
Try the 2019 spotlight video, set to “Candy Goals (Are Manufactured from This),” displaying a few of the motion under:
2019 KVIFF opening ceremony highlights
Digital or Actual? A DJ Will get the Celebration Began
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, KVIFF returned in 2022. And its opening ceremony centered on the query “digital or actual?”
That concerned a DJ on a black-and-white themed stage getting the viewers clapping and grooving, in addition to getting avenue dancers to indicate off their greatest strikes. “Digital or actual? What are you ready for?” the DJ and singers then intoned. If that wasn’t sufficient motion for anybody but, flames erupted on stage to warmth up the ambiance some extra.
Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition opening ceremony 2022
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So, sure, what are you ready for? A video of 2022 highlights could be seen under:
https://kviff.television/video/1349-zahajovaci-ceremonial
Ice Skaters Glide Into Motion On Stage
There was fairly a little bit of oohing and aahing on the Lodge Thermal in 2023 when the Karlovy Range movie pageant opening ceremony began with a curtain being raised and girls turning into seen. To the shock and delight of the viewers, they have been ice skaters.
Certainly, after the usage of hearth in 2022, final 12 months’s medium of alternative for the producers of the KVIFF opening act was ice. Because the performers ice-skated to bounce music, they have been supported by cheers from the group.
Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition opening ceremony 2023
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Try the video under:
