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Wesele (The Wedding) is a motion picture made in 1972 in Poland by Andrzej Wajda as an adaptation of a play by the same title written by Stanisław Wyspiański in 1901. Wajda also directed "Wesele" for the theatre.
The Wedding is a motion picture made in 1972 in Poland by Andrzej Wajda as an adaptation of a play by the same title written by Stanisław Wyspiański in 1901. Wajda also directed “Wesele” for the theatre. Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl.
Jan 9, 1973 · Wesele: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Marek Walczewski, Izabella Olszewska, Ewa Zietek, Daniel Olbrychski. Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl.
The wedding of a renowned Kraków-based poet (played by Daniel Olbrychski) to a peasant woman (Ewa Ziętek) becomes an opportunity for an encounter between two different worlds.
Their class-blurring union follows a fashionable trend among friends of the playwright from the modernist Young Poland movement. The play by Wyspiański was based on a real-life event: the wedding...
Set in the country of Poland, the film conveys the tale of a successful poet who meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl, who has a status in life as a peasant. The unlikely pair share deep emotions with one another despite the disagreements with family over the wedding ritual.
The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
