Pictures of the Old World

(1972)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 29 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1972

Runtime: 64 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Dušan Hanák

Cast: Ladislav Chudík

Plot

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.