Pictures of the Old World

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1972

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1 hour 4 minutes

Summary

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 isolate human experiences.

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Original NameObrazy starého sveta (Pictures of the Old World)

StatusReleased: 52 years ago
July 10, 1972

LanguageSlovenčina

Spoken LanguagesSlovenčina

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