The Wedding (1973)

• 70%
• 1973
• Drama
• Fantasy
• History
• Andrzej Wajda
• Marek Walczewski
• Izabela Olszewska
• Ewa Ziętek

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.