Funeral of Karlovy Vary’s Zaoralová held in Prague

The funeral has taken place in Prague of Eva Zaoralová, former artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, who died recently at the age of 89. The festival’s president, Jiří Bartoška, delivered a eulogy at the ceremony, which was attended by many well-known Czech actors and directors.

Bartoška and Zaoralová, a leading film journalist, made Karlovy Vary the region’s biggest cinema event after taking it over in the mid 1990s.