Pictures of the Old World

Name: Pictures of the Old World
Director: Dušan Hanák
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1972-07-10
Duration: 1 h 4 min
Rating: 8.077
Cast: Ladislav Chudík

Directed by Dušan Hanák

Documentary

19721h 4m8.1

Overview

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 isolated human experiences.