Slovak photographer Dežo Hoffmann moved to London after the Spanish Civil War. After WWII, he became a star photographer. (source: TRIGON PRODUCTION/Dežo Hoffmann)
Dežo Hoffmann, a middle-aged elegant photographer with a strong Central European accent, was kneeling and getting his camera ready by a road in a park when four young Liverpudlians – the objects of his interest – started to jump over him and grabbed his other cameras to capture the fun moment.
The jolly scene, filmed by one of the young Liverpudlians in the early sixties, leaves today’s watcher wondering how powerful and honest the bond and the chemistry must have been between the Slovak man and the musically talented boys.
The young men, in their twenties, were named Paul, John, George and Ringo. The wild and free, yet to reach the top, Beatles.
“I couldn’t control them. It was impossible to control [them],” the photographer replayed the memory in his head wholeheartedly years ago.
A new documentary, ‘Dezo Hoffmann – Photographer of the Beatles’, directed by Patrik Lančarič and produced by Patrik Pašš from Trigon Production, opened in Slovak cinemas in early summer of this year. It is 110 years since the birth of the legendary, though by some standards forgotten, Slovak photographer, celebrating his life and legacy.
