Dušan Hanák

Dušan Hanák was born on 27 April 1938 in Bratislava and studied directing at the Prague film school from 1960 to 1965. Back in Bratislava, he joined the short film studio and made some twenty documentaries, which won awards at Oberhausen, Montevideo and the Paris Biennale of Young People. Moving in 1968 to the fiction studio, he saw several of his films banned almost as soon as they were finished; one of them, shown eight years after it was shot, won him the Silver Bear for directing at Berlin. In 2004 he received the Pribina Cross, first class.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaPictures of the Old WorldObrazy starého svetaDušan Hanák · 1972Cinema