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| − | Slovak film director. Born 1938 in Bratislava. | + | Slovak film director and screenwriter. Born 1938 in Bratislava. |
| − | Hanák graduated from the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) | + | Hanák graduated from the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague in 1965. He began with a series of shorts at the Koliba film studios in Bratislava. Several of them received awards, and so did his first feature film 322 (the code for cancer in medical records of diseases, 1969). |
| − | Hanák followed it with the still admired feature-length documentary Pictures of the Old World | + | Hanák followed it with the still admired feature-length documentary ''Pictures of the Old World'' [Obrazy starého sveta] (1972), partly a meditation on what lies hidden beneath the concept of "an authentic life", a theme already addressed in ''322''. Although Hanák was treated with suspicion by the more repressive communist authorities that took over after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he found an early refuge in a topic sufficiently removed from big politics to survive on the margins of official production and yet, executed with a finesse that gave it a wide international appeal. In the most extraordinary section, an old man talks with great fascination and lucidity about space travel, recalling how two astronauts walked on the moon and collected rocks while a third circled in their spaceship. Tacked to the wall of his crumbling shack is a small photograph of men walking on the moon. It is a beautiful, elegiac work whose images could apply to Appalachia or any other poor region. Good reviews or not, ''Pictures of the Old World'' was ordered shelved after the briefest of theatrical runs. Nevertheless, despite the authorities' surly take on Hanák's films, his next venture, ''Rosy Dreams'', turned out to be another original work. His film ''I Love, You Love'' won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. |
| − | ; See also | + | ==Filmography== |
| + | ; Experimental documentary films | ||
| + | * ''Zádumčivosť'' (1963) | ||
| + | * ''Variáce kľudu'' (1966) | ||
| + | * ''Metamorfózy'' (1965) | ||
| + | * ''Impresia'' (1966) | ||
| + | * ''Sonáta, alebo Hľadanie šťastného čísla'' (1966) | ||
| + | * ''Výzva do ticha'' (1966) | ||
| + | * ''Prišiel k nám Old Shatterhand'' (1966) | ||
| + | * ''Zanechať stopu'' (1970) | ||
| + | * ''Deň Radosti'' (1972) | ||
| + | |||
| + | ; Feature films | ||
| + | * ''322'' (1969) | ||
| + | * ''Pictures of the Old World'' [Obrazy starého sveta] (1972, publicly shown in 1988 for the first time) | ||
| + | * ''Rosy Dreams'' [Ružové sny] (1976) | ||
| + | * ''I Love, You Love'' [Ja milujem, ty miluješ] (1980, publicly shown in 1988 for the first time) | ||
| + | * ''Silent Joy'' [Tichá radosť] (1985) | ||
| + | * ''Private Lives'' [Súkromné životy] (1990) | ||
| + | * ''Paper Heads'' [Papierové hlavy] (1995) | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==See also== | ||
* [[Slovakia#Experimental film]] | * [[Slovakia#Experimental film]] | ||
| − | + | ==External links== | |
* [http://www.inyfilm.sk/zhistorie/hanak/hanak.php Hanák at InyFilm.sk] | * [http://www.inyfilm.sk/zhistorie/hanak/hanak.php Hanák at InyFilm.sk] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Han%C3%A1k Hanák at Wikipedia] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Han%C3%A1k Hanák at Wikipedia] | ||
| − | [[Category:Experimental film | + | [[Category:Experimental film|Hanak, Dusan]] |
Revision as of 19:21, 20 January 2013
Slovak film director and screenwriter. Born 1938 in Bratislava.
Hanák graduated from the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague in 1965. He began with a series of shorts at the Koliba film studios in Bratislava. Several of them received awards, and so did his first feature film 322 (the code for cancer in medical records of diseases, 1969).
Hanák followed it with the still admired feature-length documentary Pictures of the Old World [Obrazy starého sveta] (1972), partly a meditation on what lies hidden beneath the concept of "an authentic life", a theme already addressed in 322. Although Hanák was treated with suspicion by the more repressive communist authorities that took over after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he found an early refuge in a topic sufficiently removed from big politics to survive on the margins of official production and yet, executed with a finesse that gave it a wide international appeal. In the most extraordinary section, an old man talks with great fascination and lucidity about space travel, recalling how two astronauts walked on the moon and collected rocks while a third circled in their spaceship. Tacked to the wall of his crumbling shack is a small photograph of men walking on the moon. It is a beautiful, elegiac work whose images could apply to Appalachia or any other poor region. Good reviews or not, Pictures of the Old World was ordered shelved after the briefest of theatrical runs. Nevertheless, despite the authorities' surly take on Hanák's films, his next venture, Rosy Dreams, turned out to be another original work. His film I Love, You Love won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
Filmography
- Experimental documentary films
- Zádumčivosť (1963)
- Variáce kľudu (1966)
- Metamorfózy (1965)
- Impresia (1966)
- Sonáta, alebo Hľadanie šťastného čísla (1966)
- Výzva do ticha (1966)
- Prišiel k nám Old Shatterhand (1966)
- Zanechať stopu (1970)
- Deň Radosti (1972)
- Feature films
- 322 (1969)
- Pictures of the Old World [Obrazy starého sveta] (1972, publicly shown in 1988 for the first time)
- Rosy Dreams [Ružové sny] (1976)
- I Love, You Love [Ja milujem, ty miluješ] (1980, publicly shown in 1988 for the first time)
- Silent Joy [Tichá radosť] (1985)
- Private Lives [Súkromné životy] (1990)
- Paper Heads [Papierové hlavy] (1995)
