A small photograph pinned to the wall of a collapsing hut: men walking on the Moon. The old man who lives there describes it without a trace of astonishment. Hanák finds people like this in the Tatra villages — on their own, with their animals, at the edge of the world.
Cast
Ladislav ChudíkNarrator
Dušan Hanák — other films
322322 (1969)
I Love, You LoveI Love, You Love (1980)
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