The Happiest Barrack
A legvidámabb barakk
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
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Hungary, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
