Direction: Dusan Hanák
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Dusan Hanák. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 12
Pictures of the Old World
1972 · Documentary · 65 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis 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...
7.6
182 votes
7.6
182 votes
322
1969 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Cast Václav Lohniský · Lucyna Winnicka · Josef Abrhám · Vladimír Weiser
Synopsis A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title stands for the diagnosis of one kind of cancer). He understands his illness as a form of punishment for his...
6.8
34 votes
6.8
34 votes
I Love, You Love
1980 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Cast Roman Klosowski · Iva Janzurová · Milan Jelic
Synopsis A tragicomic film about people from the social periphery. Director Dusan Hanak portrayed his characters with a sensitive understanding, without romanticizing. That was also why the film, similarly to Hanak's previous works 322 and Pictures of the Old World, ended...
6.0
23 votes
6.0
23 votes
Omsa (S)
1967 · Documentary · 11 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis A traditional mass filmed in a church in the historical town of Spisska Sobota (Northern Slovakia), featuring authentic liturgical texts and songs.
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Private Lives
1991 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Cast Jana Sulcová · Magda Vásáryová · Zuzana Cigánová · Stano Danciak
Synopsis Bratislava, end of 80s, two estranged sisters try to make up with each other while balancing their private lives and careers, questioning their femininity and importance in relationships, and most importantly, sharing love for one man.
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Pink Dreams
1977 · Movie · 81 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Cast Juraj Nvota · Iva Bittová · Josef Hlinomaz · Marie Motlová
Synopsis An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the...
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Paper Heads
1995 · Documentary · 96 min. · Slovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis A film about the history of Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1989. Compiling a huge body of documentary footage together with the testimonies of present day survivors.
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A Day of Joy (S)
1972 · Documentary · 22 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis A playful depiction of the festivities around the performance If All Trains of the World by Alex Mlynárčik on June 12, 1971.
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Quiet Happiness
1986 · Movie · 89 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Cast Magda Vásáryová · Jirí Bartoska · Jana Brejchová · Róbert Koltai
Synopsis This film is a psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotional barrenness of the men around her.
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Artisti (S)
1965 · Documentary · 14 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis Documentary portrait of the life of circus artists during their winter break.
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Ucenie (S)
1965 · Documentary · 14 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis Documentary film about apprentice youth about to enter real life.
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Prisiel k nám Old Shatterhand (S)
1966 · Documentary · 12 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Dusan Hanák
Synopsis Slovaks struggle to deal with foreign visitors, even with foreign elements such a stone in the middle of the street.
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