The Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
Three short fables about Havettová’s main theme of help and abuse, done in a minimalist style so that no surface artistry distracts the viewer from the lessons. The encounters happen between: a coloured pencil and a knife, with a sharpener making things complicated; a dress and an iron; and finally, a bundle of matches, a teapot and a suicidal candle.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
- 11'
- Czechoslovakia
- 1980
- Director
- Jaroslava Havettová
- Country of production
- Czechoslovakia
- Year
- 1980
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 11'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Czech
- Production Company
- Krátký Film Praha
- Sales
- Slovak Film Institute
- Screenplay
- Jaroslava Havettová
- Cinematography
- Henrieta Peťovská
- Sound Design
- Alexander Pallos
- Music
- Dezider Ursiny
Also in this combined programme
Bear of Happiness
When a village is in danger, the inhabitants set out to find the Bear of Happiness.
10'
Soviet Union
IFFR 2023
The Golden Sieve
Three stories-in-songs for children about the heavens above. A milestone in (Soviet) Latvian animation!
10'
Latvia
IFFR 2023
In My Pocket
A cornucopia of stories-in-songs for children, based on poems by famous (Soviet) Latvian literato Ojārs Vācietis.
10'
Soviet Union
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Jaroslava Havettová
- Country of production
- Czechoslovakia
- Year
- 1980
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 11'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Czech
- Production Company
- Krátký Film Praha
- Sales
- Slovak Film Institute
- Screenplay
- Jaroslava Havettová
- Cinematography
- Henrieta Peťovská
- Sound Design
- Alexander Pallos
- Music
- Dezider Ursiny
Programme IFFR 2023
Cinema Regained
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeThe Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
Amar Akbar Anthony
A song, dance, action, laughter and romance-packed Hindi spectacle as a paean to religious tolerance.
175'
India
IFFR 2023
Autobiography of a Princess
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023