Released Date:
1982-09-13
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (332 Reviews)
Director:
Witold LeszczynskiWitold Leszczynski
Edward Redlinski (novel)
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
Released Date:
1998-11-20
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (191 Reviews)
Director:
Jan Jakub KolskiJan Jakub Kolski
Released Date:
2003-10-17
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland, France
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (716 Reviews)
Director:
Jan Jakub KolskiLuc Bondy
Gèrard Brach
Witold Gombrowicz (novel)
Jan Jakub Kolski
Witold narrates a story. In Warsaw, in 1943, he meets the cultivated Fryderyk at a salon and they become friends. He takes Fryderyk with him to the country estate of Hipolit, Maria, and Henia, their teen daughter. Hipolit aids local resistance fighters. Fryderyk embarks on a game to engineer the cuckolding of Waclaw, Henia's fiancè, by Karol, a youth in the household who's Henia's long-time friend. War intrudes on the country idyll when a murder happens during dinner at the estate and when the local guerrilla commander seems to lose his grip. Rumors that the war may end soon don't halt deadly turns. What is Fryderyk's nature, and what has shaped it?
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