A first-time visitor probes the unlikely connection that unites the Czech festival’s oldest feature and its hottest new presentation.. Be Prepared!, a 1923 feature about the early Scout movement in what was then Czechoslovakia, came to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in a freshly restored version ready for everything… except for the midsummer heat. The film, titled after the Scouts’ famous motto, had a single screening scheduled at the city's Municipal Theatre. Nestled a short walk from the thermal springs which are the spa’s raison d’être this grand edifice known for its decoration by artists such as Gustav Klimt and Franz Matsch, not for its ventilation system. In spite of that, I found myself there at 1pm on sunny Monday afternoon, prepared to discover all there was to know about inter-war Czechoslovak Scouts. Director Svatopluk Innemann's film was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a propaganda piece with everything the genre entails: sloganeering,...
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