Viggo Mortensen, Clive Owen, Daniel Brühl to Be Honored at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Actor-director Viggo Mortensen, actor Clive Owen and actor-director Daniel Brühl will be honored at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading movie event, which will open with Mortensen’s “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” The festival also revealed Wednesday that director-producer Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter-director Nicole Holofcener will attend the event.
Mortensen, Owen and Brühl will each receive the Festival President’s Award. The festival will screen Mike Nichols’ 2004 drama “Closer,” for which Owen was Oscar nominated, to mark his award.
Brühl will present his directorial debut “Next Door,” which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale, at Karlovy Vary to coincide with his award.
Soderbergh will present two of his films, “Kafka” (1991) and “Mr. Kneff” (2021), which are being shown as part of the festival’s retrospective for films inspired by the works of Kafka, titled “The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema.” Karlovy Vary will be paying tribute to the career of Holofcener, with three of her films screening: “Please Give” (2010), “Enough Said” (2013), and “You Hurt My Feelings” (2023).
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