At the barracks

At the barracks was released on December 4, 2019.

At the barracks was directed by Katharina Copony.

At the barracks has a runtime of 90m.

At the barracks was produced by Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Barbara Pichler.

For over twenty years, the grandmother of filmmaker Katharina Copony ran a military canteen in southern Styria. She, too, spent part of her childhood among soldiers preparing for war—just as her mother and her mother’s siblings had done before her. In the Barracks sketches a multigenerational portrait from a female perspective through brief fragments of memory. Personal experiences, narrated off-screen, and reenactments featuring child actors reconstruct, within the present-day context of barracks life, an extended family history spanning from the postwar period to the late 1970s. A film of memory narrated by a collective voice.

The key characters in At the barracks are Ellis Artmann-Widerhofer (Ellis Artmann-Widerhofer), Greta Lenhart (Greta Lenhart), Josefine Lyon (Josefine Lyon).

At the barracks is a Documentary film.