The Wedding (1973)
- Original title
- Wesele
- Directed by
- Andrzej Wajda
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Poland
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A wedding between a man from the city and a peasant woman brings together their families and friends. Over the night, conversations and encounters reveal tensions in Polish society and history.
theatricalsatiricalcontemplativedensevisually stylizedbittersweethistorical
What happens
Wesele (The Wedding) is a 1972 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was adapted from the 1901 play by the same name by Stanisław Wyspiański. The plot is set at the wedding of a member of Kraków intelligentsia (the Bridegroom, played by Daniel Olbrychski), and his peasant Bride (played by Ewa Ziętek). 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 of Lucjan Rydel at the St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków and his wedding reception in the village of Bronowice. It was inspired in part also by the modernist painting of Jacek Malczewski and Maksymilian Gierymski. Wajda also directed Wesele for the theatre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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