Pan Tadeusz (film)

Pan Tadeusz The Last Foray in Lithuania is a 1999 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the eponymous epic poem by Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz 17981855. As in the poem, conflict between the Soplica and Horeszko families serves as a backdrop for discussion of issues of Polish national unity and the struggle for independence.

Pan Tadeusz is told in flashbacks as the author, Adam Mickiewicz, reads his work to a group of elderly exiles in Paris. The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 in rolling landscapes of Lithuania inhabited by Poles whose homeland has been recently partitioned among Russia, the Austrian Empire and Prussia. Not far off in history looms Napoleons invasion of Russia, the prospect of which heartens Poles yearning for liberation. But more immediately, the characters in Pan Tadeusz are feuding among themselves.At odds are two families the Soplicas and the Horeszkos. Their differences arise from a bloody night when the dashing Jacek Soplica who was earlier rejected as a suitor for the old Count Horeszkos daughter, takes advantage of a Russian assault on the Counts castle to kill him. At that moment, the Counts faithful warden, Gervazy, vows vengeance for his masters death. Gervazy will not forgive and forget that in 1792, the last household lord of the Horeszkos was killed by Jacek Soplica and as a result, the latter was rewarded with the formers castle by the Russian colonizers. ........

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