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Pictures of the Old World

7.8Jul 10, 19721h 4mDocumentary

Directed by Dušan Hanák

Written by Boris Hochel, Dušan Hanák

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.

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Ladislav Chudík

Ladislav Chudík

Narrator

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