A pretty pin badge from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 1966. With the text MFF which stands for Mezinarodni (international) Film Festival and then a set of Roman numerals denoting the number of the 15th festival. The logo is that of a natural spring for which Karlovy Vary is very famous. The badge face is 2cm high and has a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.
Historical Background
The Czech Republic has state of the art film studios and a comparatively low paid workforce so a large number of Hollywood funded films are filmed entirely in The Czech Republic and surrounding countries. During World war 2 the Germans refitted the Barrandov studios with modern, state of the art equipment and used them to produce propaganda films for the Reich. Once Czechoslovakia was again a free country the film industry grew to be very successful. The Karlovy Vary film festival is one of the oldest in the world. The pre-war dream of many enthusiastic filmmakers materialized in 1946 when in Marianske Lazne and Karlovy Vary a non-competition festival of films from seven countries took place. Above all it was intended to screen the results of the recently nationalized Czechoslovak film industry. After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is now probably the most important festival in central Europe
You can visit their website here.
