The Happiest Barrack

  • 16'
  • United Kingdom
  • 2016
Tracing her grandmother’s life of destitution in Soviet Hungary, Noémi Varga scans a house, the inhabitants of which appear numb and deprived of all sensation under the pressures of Soviet 'socialism'. Phone conversations with her family reveal the depths of her grandmother’s suffering, representing a generation of pain.  


All Short films at IFFR 2017

  • 16'
  • United Kingdom
  • 2016
Director
Noémi Varga
Countries of production
United Kingdom, Hungary
Year
2016
Festival Edition
IFFR 2017
Length
16'
Medium
DCP
Original title
A legvidámabb barakk
Language
Hungarian
Producers
Emília Gacsályi, Ildiko Kosztolni
Sales
Noémi Varga
Cinematography
Marcell Nagy
Sound Design
Zoltán Juhász, Louis Tompkins
Music
György Korda, Klári Balázs
Director
Noémi Varga
Countries of production
United Kingdom, Hungary
Year
2016
Festival Edition
IFFR 2017
Length
16'
Medium
DCP
Original title
A legvidámabb barakk
Language
Hungarian
Producers
Emília Gacsályi, Ildiko Kosztolni
Sales
Noémi Varga
Cinematography
Marcell Nagy
Sound Design
Zoltán Juhász, Louis Tompkins
Music
György Korda, Klári Balázs