Mr. Tadeusz

Mr. Tadeusz talks about the hopes of defeating the Russian conqueror and regaining his own state, which were briefly awakened in the Poles by the Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte. The title character is a “young lady” from the Soplice family, in love with the young Zosa, the granddaughter of Stolnik from the Horeszków family, and seduced by Telimena, the elder of the two.

However, the key character of the film Pan Tadeusz directed by Andrzej Wajda, shot according to Mickiewicz's poem, is Jacek Soplica - the killer of Stolnik, then a penitent and secret emissary, who, hiding even from his own son and brother, as Father Robak, is preparing an armed uprising against the Russian occupation in Sopliców, Lithuania The...