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A Portrait from Our Century

A Portrait from Our Century

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Sándor Reisenbüchler | Hungary | 1965 | 10' |

| IFFR 2023

An associative animation of photos and paintings, showing mankind’s history and the fortunes and misfortunes of life one can trace in a human face. Modern life, it seems, can’t escape the horrors of war and genocide. Still, there’s the joy cinema provides: light, colours, movements…!

– Olaf Möller

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