
Pictures of the Old World
IMDB:
8.1
Released
7/10/1972
Duration
1h 4m
Genre
Documentary
Country
Czechoslovakia
Cast
Ladislav Chudík
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 isolated human experiences.

Pictures of the Old World
IMDB:
8.1Released
7/10/1972
Genre
Documentary
Cast
Ladislav Chudík
Duration
1h 4m
Country
Czechoslovakia
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 isolated human experiences.
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