Academy of Polish Film WEZELE

Polish Film Academy — Wajda. Director of the painting PAINTING AND VISUAL TRADITION — PAINTING IN MOTION Wedding (1972) lecture: Robert Sowa, PhD The drama begins with reportage scenes in front of the St. Mary's Church in Krakow, from where the wedding procession sets off for the wedding in Bronowice. On the way, guests in carriages pass an Austrian fort, roadside crosses, a peasant funeral. In a small noble manor, the wedding feta begins, during which there will be an intellectual confrontation between people from the city and the countryside, a confrontation of different views and mentalities, intensified by dancing and alcohol. In the finale, Jasper with the Golden Horn is thrown on a white horse between Russian and Austrian border patrols. When the vodka blows out of their heads, the peasants terrorize the intelligentsia with scythes.

An original adaptation of a young Polish drama, which assumes breaking the theatricality of the Wedding, despite preserving the original, poetic dialogues. An excellent example of creative cinema of rare beauty and suggestibility. A mysterious nocturnal mystery saturated with pulsating colors in motion, where characters briefly emerge from the swirling crowd of guests, only to disappear back into the dance circle after speaking their points.

Jan Słodowski, Lexicon of Polish Feature Films, Warsaw 1996