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THE WEDDING DAY

Bioscop

Weddings are a beloved motif in Polish cinema: venerable master Wojciech Smarzowski has also chosen to place just such a celebration at the centre of his latest feature film. The unsuspecting audience may think they're in for a black comedy, but Smarzowski links the slapstick action at a pig farm with the site's grim Holocaust history. Slowly but surely, the family's entanglements with the Polish persecution of Jews in the Second World War come to light. This contemporary wedding is rife with racism, greed and opportunism – past and present are truly joined for all eternity.
WESELE / DER HOCHZEITSTAG
LVA, POL 2021 / 134 min / OV + eng SUB
Language: Polish, German, English
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
Screenings
  • Kinocenter, Gießen We, 20.04. / 20:00 Uhr
  • Theater im Pariser Hof Fr, 22.04. / 20:00 Uhr
  • Rex, Darmstadt Fr, 22.04. / 20:15 Uhr
  • Screenplay: Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Cinematographer: Piotr Sobociński Jr
  • Editor: Krzysztof Komander
  • Music: Mikołaj Trzaska
  • Sound: Radosław Ochino
  • Cast: Agata Kulesza, Robert Więckiewicz, Michalina Łabacz, Mateusz Więcławek, Arkadiusz Jakubik
  • Producer: Janusz Bogaczyk, Wojciech Gostomczyk, Janusz Hetman
  • Co-Producer: Aija Bērziņa
  • Production Company: Studio Métrage
  • Co-Production Company: Tasse Film
Weddings are a beloved motif in Polish cinema: venerable master Wojciech Smarzowski has also chosen to place just such a celebration at the centre of his latest feature film. The unsuspecting audience may think they're in for a black comedy, but Smarzowski links the slapstick action at a pig farm with the site's grim Holocaust history. Slowly but surely, the family's entanglements with the Polish persecution of Jews in the Second World War come to light. This contemporary wedding is rife with racism, greed and opportunism – past and present are truly joined for all eternity.
  • Screenplay: Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Cinematographer: Piotr Sobociński Jr
  • Editor: Krzysztof Komander
  • Music: Mikołaj Trzaska
  • Sound: Radosław Ochino
  • Cast: Agata Kulesza, Robert Więckiewicz, Michalina Łabacz, Mateusz Więcławek, Arkadiusz Jakubik
  • Producer: Janusz Bogaczyk, Wojciech Gostomczyk, Janusz Hetman
  • Co-Producer: Aija Bērziņa
  • Production Company: Studio Métrage
  • Co-Production Company: Tasse Film