Pictures of the Old World 1972

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Documentary

A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images. Dušan Hanák's continuation of these photographs takes the shape of a poetic visual essay, capturing more comprehensive vignettes of their isolate human experiences.

Release Date 1972-07-10
Runtime 1h 4m
Director Dušan Hanák
Producer
Writers Dušan Hanák, Boris Hochel