Obrazy starého sveta (1972)

Title: Pictures of the Old World

Original Title: Obrazy starého sveta

Release Date: 1972-07-10

Status: Released

Rating: 8.1/10 (from 25 votes)

Language: SK

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Slovenská filmová tvorba, Slovenský film Bratislava

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.