Dušan Hanák

Hanák graduated from the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts)[1] in Prague in 1965.

Hanák followed 322 with the 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.

[3] 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 while reaching wide international appeal.

In one 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.

Yet despite the authorities' surly take on Hanák's films, his next venture, Rosy Dreams, turned out to be another original work.