The Wedding (1973)
January 9, 1973Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Marek Walczewski
Host
Izabela Olszewska
Hostess
Ewa Ziętek
Bride
Emilia Krakowska
Marysia
Daniel Olbrychski
Bridegroom
Andrzej Wajda
Director
Mieczysław Stoor
Wojtek
Andrzej Kijowski
Writer
Kazimierz Opaliński
Father
Henryk Borowski
Old Man
Czesław Niemen
Composer
Marek Perepeczko
Jasiek
Stanisław Radwan
Composer
Janusz Bukowski
Kasper
Andrzej Łapicki
Poet
Witold Sobociński
Cinematographer
Wojciech Pszoniak
Journalist / Stanczyk
Andrzej Szczepkowski
Nose
Mieczysław Czechowicz
Priest
Barbara Wrzesińska
Maryna
Gabriela Kownacka
Zosia (as Gabriela Kwasz)
Małgorzata Lorentowicz
Mrs. Councillor
Maria Konwicka
Haneczka
Franciszek Pieczka
Czepiec
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 9, 1973
Original NameWesele
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
Filming LocationsObory, Sochaczew County · Czosnów, Poland
Genres
Wiki.
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 Stanisław Wyspiański in 1901. Wajda also directed "Wesele" for the theatre.
"Wesele" is a defining work of Polish drama written at the turn of the 20th century. It describes the perils of the national drive toward self-determination after the Polish uprisings of November 1830 and January 1863, the result of the Partitions of Poland. It also refers to the Galician slaughter of 1846. The plot is set at the wedding of a member of Kraków intelligentsia (the Bridegroom, played by Daniel Olbrychski), and his peasant Bride (played by Ewa Ziętek). Their class-blurring union follows a fashionable trend among friends of the playwright from the modernist Young Poland movement.
The play by Wyspiański was based on a real-life event: the wedding of Lucjan Rydel at the St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków and his wedding reception in the village of Bronowice. It was inspired in part also by the modernist painting of Jacek Malczewski and Maksymilian Gierymski.