Obrazy starého sveta

Jul 10 1972 N/A 1h 10m
Documentary

A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martincek - 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.

Plot

Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.

Written by

Dusan Hanák

Directed by

Dusan Hanák

Cast

N/A

Crew

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Production Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production Companies

Slovenský film Bratislava, Slovenská filmová tvorba Koliba (SFT)

Languages

Slovencina

Awards

3 wins

Scores
# of Votes
909
Average Rating
8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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