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Produced by
  
Juraj Král

Starring
  
Ladislav Chudík

Cinematography
  
Alojz Hanúsek

Director
  
Dušan Hanák

Producer
  
Juraj Kral

8.2/10
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Directed by
  
Dušan Hanák

Screenplay by
  
Dušan Hanák

Music by
  
Václav Hálek

Initial release
  
1972 (Czechoslovakia)

Screenplay
  
Dušan Hanák

Cast
  
Ladislav Chudík

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Music director
  
Václav Hálek, Jozef Malovec, George Frideric Handel

Similar
  
I Love - You Love, Rosy Dreams, Paper Heads, Birds - Orphans and Fools, The Sun in a Net

Obrazy star ho sveta aka pictures of the old world part 2


Pictures of the Old World (Slovak: Obrazy starého sveta) is a 1972 Slovak documentary film by Dušan Hanák. The film is about old people who seeminly live at the edge of society. Pictures of the Old World was voted in 2000 by Slovak critics as the best Slovak film of all time. The film won the Best Non-Fiction Film at 1990 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. The film was banned until 1988 and so it is officially premiered in July 1988.

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Characteristics

The film consists of dialogues with old people who haven't been "deformed by civilisation." The film tries to find answers to questions of human existence. People featured in the film tell their life stories that are linked to their ancestors customs. Their lives are often sad and unhappy. All of them are the evidence of human power and freemasonry. The most of them live the remain of their lives lonely with animals as their only friends.

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Pictures of the Old World Wikipedia


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