Jiří Bartoška, Actor and Karlovy Vary Film Festival President, Dies at 78

Jirí Bartoska, Czech Actor and Longtime Karlovy Vary Film Festival President, Dies at 78

Jirí Bartoska, the Czech actor who served for decades as president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, has died at 78.

Jiří Bartoška, Karlovy Vary Film Festival President, Dies at 78

Jiří Bartoška, Czech actor and Karlovy Vary Film Festival president, died Thursday at age 78, per reports. Bartoška was born in the Czech Republic on March 24, 1947. After attending Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brn, he joined Divadlo Husa na provázku theatre in Brno. Bartoška’s theater spanned through the early ’70s and early ’90s, and during that time he started a residency at the Theatre on the Balustrade and made his film d…

Jiří Bartoška, Actor and Karlovy Vary Film Festival President, Dies at 78

Czech actor and president of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Jiří Bartoška died on Thursday at the age of 78. After graduating from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, he first worked at the Husa na Provázku Theatre and the Činoherní studio in Ústí nad Labem, before becoming a mainstay of the ensemble […]

With Jiří Bartoška, a piece of Czech culture and charismatic style is also leaving. This is how X President Petr Pavel commented on the Thursday death of the actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on the social network. He called Bartoška a dude and expressed condolences to his family and loved ones.

Jiří Bartoška died at the age of 78. He also spent a significant part of his life working for the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

In this country where it seems like everyone is angry with everyone, Jiří Bartoška was a completely unique phenomenon: Barťák was loved by almost everyone. But actually, not only loved: people respected him for many years! They respected him, just as people respect a good variety of wine, a noble horse, a beautiful tree, a picturesque landscape, an old castle, a well-led life.