Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania
– A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. ..
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
21 Jan 2000
Polish
Andrzej Wajda
Adam Mickiewicz (poem), Jan Nowina-Zarzycki, Andrzej Wajda, Piotr Weresniak
Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska, Andrzej Seweryn
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.
6 wins & 5 nominations.
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