Dušan Hanák
Dušan Hanák (April 27, 1938 in Bratislava) is a Slovak film director. He graduated from the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague in 1965.
Papierove hlavy
Dušan Hanák's final film: a bitter documentary about the history of Communism in Czechoslovakia.
Ja milujem, ty milujes
The drama called I Love, You Love was made in 1980 but because of the absurd ideological ban, the film entered cinemas nine years later. Pišta is an unmarried man who works at a freight wagon which carries letters and parcels. Alcohol helps him to overcome his handicap of being short and not good-looking.
Ruzové sny
Jakub, a dreamer and budding magician, juggles between parcels and services rendered to the villagers. His eyes cross that of the beautiful gypsy Jolanka. Together, they will try to live a first and big love, despite the pressure of their respective communities.
Obrazy starého sveta
A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images.
322
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 cruel deeds in the 1950s.
Artisti
Documentary portrait of the life of circus artists during their winter break.