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Pictures of the Old World

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1972 · 1h 4m · Documentary · Czechoslovakia

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.

Written & directed by
Dušan Hanák
Starring
Ladislav Chudík
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end of lifehuman conditionhuman interestlabor documentarymeaning of lifeold mansense of lifeslovakiaslovakian familiessocial & cultural documentarysocial documentarysource of lifethe meaning of lifeway of life

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