Pictures of the Old World

Name: Obrazy starého sveta
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1972-07-10
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Rating: 8.1

Original title: Obrazy starého sveta

19721972
1h 10min

8.1/10

637

Documentary

Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentar... Read allPictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovak... Read allPictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual ... Read all

8.1/10

637

Director
- Dusan Hanák
Writer
- Dusan Hanák

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Awards
- 2 wins

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Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni

7.1

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7.8

7.6

7.5

Chronicle of a Summer

7.3

Adelheid

7.8

Muddy River

Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.