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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
Kyōto was always the capital of Japanese heritage filmmaking. In the 1930s, a group of directors redefined this cinema along humanist-progressive lines – a set of ideas and aesthetics valid to this day. The most venerated figure among them is Yamanaka Sadao, who like no other auteur of his time knew how to fuse melodrama and irony, action and reflection.
Of his surviving films, Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo is the most humorous, thanks to an especially relaxed, wise and world-weary interpretation of the one-armed, one-eyed masterless samurai, Tange Sazen, an icon of Japanese popular fiction. Here, he gets dragged into the struggle for a pot, inside which a treasure map is hidden. Many bet their life on it, only to find themselves richer – in shattered illusions.
Previously unknown scenes from this masterpiece were recently discovered in Kyōto’s Toy Film Museum, enabling the restoration of the most complete version of the film.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeWhen Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
As Japanese monsters like Godzilla have so often saved the world, could they now help us fight Covid-19? Find out here!
88'
Japan
IFFR 2021
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