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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.
"Wesele" is a defining work of Polish drama written at the turn of the 20th century. It describes the perils of the national drive toward self-determination after the Polish uprisings of November 1830 and January 1863, the result of the Partitions of Poland. It also refers to the Galician slaughter of 1846. 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.
Original Release
01/09/1973
US Release
01/02/1976
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marek Walczewski | Host |
Izabella Olszewska | Hostess |
Ewa Zietek | Bride |
Daniel Olbrychski | Bridegroom |
Emilia Krakowska | Marysia |
Mieczyslaw Stoor | Wojtek |
Kazimierz Opalinski | Father |
Henryk Borowski | Old Man |
Marek Perepeczko | Jasiek |
Janusz Bukowski | Kasper |
Directors
Writers
Andrzej Kijowski, Stanislaw Wyspianski
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marek Walczewski | Host |
Izabella Olszewska | Hostess |
Ewa Zietek | Bride |
Daniel Olbrychski | Bridegroom |
Emilia Krakowska | Marysia |
Mieczyslaw Stoor | Wojtek |
Kazimierz Opalinski | Father |
Henryk Borowski | Old Man |
Marek Perepeczko | Jasiek |
Janusz Bukowski | Kasper |
Andrzej Lapicki | Poet |
Wojciech Pszoniak | Journalist / Stanczyk |
Andrzej Szczepkowski | Nose |
Mieczyslaw Czechowicz | Priest |
Barbara Wrzesińska | Maryna |
Gabriela Kownacka | Zosia (as Gabriela Kwasz) / Zosia |
Malgorzata Lorentowicz | Mrs. Councillor |
Maria Konwicka | Haneczka |
Franciszek Pieczka | Czepiec |
Hanna Skarzanka | Klimina |