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When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
During the 1950s, very much in the spirit of the day, some progressive-minded Icelanders founded an association that would cultivate good relations with the USSR – by showing films, among other activities. Now the superpower is gone, but their Icelandic friends are still showing Soviet movies once a week. Screens before The Village Detective: a song cycle.
- Director
- Haukur Hallsson
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Iceland, Czech Republic
- Production Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 21'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- MÍR: Byltingin lengi lifi
- Language
- Icelandic
- Producers
- Haukur Hallsson, Gunnar Ragnarsson
- Production Company
- Skýlið Studio
- Sales
- FAMU
- Cinematography
- Morten Vilhelm
- Editor
- Dimitris Polyzos
- Sound Design
- Jakub Trš, Hjalti Karl Hafsteinsson
- Music
- ANDI
Programme IFFR 2021
Cinema Regained
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
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88'
Japan
IFFR 2021
All Other Things Equal
Can we find a different feminism in the images of state-sponsored Soviet documentaries about women and their role in socialism? Yes.
20'
Russia
IFFR 2021