The Wedding (1972 film)

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 Stanisaw Wyspiaski in 1901. Wajda also directed Wesele for the theatre.

The celebration of the new marriage moves on from the church to the villagers house. In the rooms adjoining that of the wedding party, guests continually burst into arguments, make love, or simply rest from their merriment, dancing and feasting. Interspersed with the real guests are the wellknown figures of Polish history and culture, who represent the guilty consciences of the characters. The two groups gradually begin a series of dialogues. The Poet played by Andrzej apicki is visited successively by the Black Knight, a symbol of the nations past military glory the Journalist played by Wojciech Pszoniak, then by the court jester and conservative political sage Staczyk and the Ghost of Wernyhora Marek Walczewski, a paradigm of leadership for Poland. Wernyhora presents the Host with a golden horn symbolizing the national mission, and calls the Polish people to a revolt. One of the farm hands is dispatched to sound the horn at each corner of Poland, but he loses the horn soon after.

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