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| Summary: | "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"--IMDb.
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 DVD (64 min.) : sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. |
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| Format: | DVD; PAL. |
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| Awards: | European Film Awards 1989: Special Mention (Dušan Hanák). Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1990: LAFCA Award in Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film (Dušan Hanák). |
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| Production Credits: | Camera, Alojz Hanúsek; photography, Martin Martinek. |
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