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The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)

The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)

Az 1812-es év (Háború és béke)

Sándor Reisenbüchler | Hungary | 1973 | 12' |

| 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

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