Nights and Days (1975)

Original title

Noce i dnie

Directed by

Jerzy Antczak

Genre

drama film, war film, melodrama

Country

Poland

Runtime

10h 32m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in 19th century Poland, this epic follows the Niechcic family through love and hardship after a failed uprising. An elderly woman remembers her marriage and unfulfilled love as she flees a burning city.

sweepingmelancholicromantichistoricalintrospectiveemotionalintimate

What happens

Nights and Days (Polish: Noce i dnie) is a 1975 Polish film directed by Jerzy Antczak. This epic family drama was based on Maria Dąbrowska's novel Noce i dnie, and was described by The Washington Post as "Poland's Gone With the Wind". Set in Kalisz and the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the film presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society, life in exile, and the confiscation of private property as told through the loves and struggles of the Niechcic family. This sweeping historical epic was the highest-grossing film in Poland's history upon its release and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1977. The film score was composed by Waldemar Kazanecki, which includes a Viennese waltz that is frequently played at Polish weddings as the first dance of bride and groom. Amid the turbulence of World War I, elderly Barbara Niechcic recalls her dramatic life with husband Bogumił over a half-century of Polish history, starting with the failed January Uprising in 1863. Barbara, running away from burning city of Kalisz is reminiscing her unfulfilled love, her marriage to a man she initially did not love, death of her first child, birth of three others, confiscation of her family property, her separation from her husband, his illness, death and other numerous family struggles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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