Dušan Hanák: Both Acclaimed & Censured First Online Retrospective of this Czechoslovak New Wave Director
The DAFilms streaming portal is paying tribute to Dušan Hanák, one of the most important Slovak directors, by presenting thirteen digitally restored films in what is the first online retrospective focused on his work. Hanák’s creative start dates to the 1960s, when the Czechoslovak New Wave began to attract interest with the films of Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová
, and
Jiří Menzel at the head of the list. He made his first feature-length film –
322 – in 1969, one year after Czechoslovakia was occupied by Soviet-led troops. Despite the exceptional international success of his debut film, his next two works –