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
An almost psychedelically luminous invocation of the Battle of Borodino set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1880). As Reisenbüchler put it: the film deals with “self-destruction in the power struggle for the conquest of empires”.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
- 12'
- Hungary
- 1973
- Director
- Sándor Reisenbüchler
- Country of production
- Hungary
- Year
- 1973
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 12'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Az 1812-es év (Háború és béke)
- Language
- no dialogue
- Production Company
- Pannónia Filmstúdió
- Sales
- National Film Institute Hungary
- Screenplay
- Sándor Reisenbüchler
- Cinematography
- Iren Henrik
- Editor
- Magda Hap
- Sound Design
- Péter Bársony
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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
- Sándor Reisenbüchler
- Country of production
- Hungary
- Year
- 1973
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 12'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Az 1812-es év (Háború és béke)
- Language
- no dialogue
- Production Company
- Pannónia Filmstúdió
- Sales
- National Film Institute Hungary
- Screenplay
- Sándor Reisenbüchler
- Cinematography
- Iren Henrik
- Editor
- Magda Hap
- Sound Design
- Péter Bársony
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