The noted Czech photographer Karel Plicka, having collected Slovak folk material for many years, and obviously inspired by Flaherty's Nanook of the North, filmed this genuine record of a vanishing culture on location in the rustic Carpathian mountains. Alexander Hackenschmied's innovative editing of the film (a kind of architectural editing in which shots of the same object are shown from differing points of view), set to Frantisek Skvor's original score (carefully composed sounds of singers, violins and flutes) transforms this ethnographic work into a compelling visual and aural symphony. "The film is half-way to the ecstatic folk cinema of Sergei Paradjanov" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).