Pictures of the Old World (1972)

Overview : 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.

Release Date : July 10, 1972

Runtime : 64m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Slovenská filmová tvorba, Slovenský film Bratislava

Countries : Czechoslovakia

Keywords : way of life, sense of life, old man, social documentary, meaning of life, human interest, the meaning of life, social & cultural documentary, slovakia, end of life, source of life, human condition, labor documentary, slovakian families