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Pictures of the Old World (1972)

Pictures of the Old World (1972)

Documentary
Release Date: 1972, July 10
Directors: Dušan Hanák
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Slovenská filmová tvorba, Slovenský film Bratislava, Slovenský film Bratislava
Cast: Ladislav Chudík

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.

Keywords:

social documentary social & cultural documentary sense of life old man slovakia meaning of life way of life the meaning of life end of life human interest human condition labor documentary source of life slovakian families