Dusan Hanák – Obrazy starého sveta AKA Pictures of the Old World (1972)
Dušan Hanák’s renowned film was voted by critics as the best Slovak film of all time. Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček (1913–2004) whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist’s work in reflecting a myriad of human stories.
At odds with the Communist propaganda of the time, the authorities withdrew the film from release and it remained condemned and banned for many years. Hanák’s film, however, is not political or polemical but explores much more fundamental levels of human experience. Its power and beauty lie in its unique portrait of a people left behind by the modern world. A singular and shattering film.
Pictures.of.the.Old.World.(Obrazy.stareho.sveta).1972.1080p.WEB.x264-KnightsOfNi.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 4 min
Size: 2.47 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 5 354 kb/s
BPP: 0.103
Audio
#1: Slovak 1.0ch AAC LC @ 157 kb/s
Language(s):Slovak, Czech
Subtitles:English, French
