The Wedding (1972 film)
| Wesele (The Wedding) | |
|---|---|
Marek Perepeczko in the film | |
| Directed by | Andrzej Wajda |
| Written by | Stanisław Wyspiański Andrzej Kijowski(screenplay) |
| Produced by | Film Polski, Zespoly Realizatorow Filmowych |
| Starring | Daniel Olbrychski Ewa Ziętek Andrzej Łapicki Wojciech Pszoniak Marek Walczewski Franciszek Pieczka Marek Perepeczko |
| Cinematography | Witold Sobociński |
| Music by | Czesław Niemen |
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Running time | 1 hr. 46 min |
| Language | Polish |
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.