Wesele

Wesele
  • Release date: 9 Jan 1973
  • Release year: 1973
  • Runtime: 102 minutes
  • Country: Poland
  • Keywords: folk horror, wedding, poet, peasant, bridegroom, wedding party, wedding night, social differences, polish history, metaphysical
Plot:
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 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 of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
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