Because of the enormous interest in the November edition of the Doctoral Students' Film Club, during which we watched DK and Hugh Welchman's film The Peasants, the Culture Commission of the Jagiellonian University’s PhD Student Association invites you to a second screening of this film in the White Auditorium of the Cinema Under the Rams (Rynek Główny 27) on Tuesday December 5th at 6:00 PM.
Admission is free for doctoral students of the Jagiellonian University, although the number of participants is limited. We ask all who are interested in attending the event to send an email to filip.mazurczak@doctoral.uj.edu.pl by Monday December 4th. We ask those who took part in the November screening to not sign up.
The Peasants, dir. DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman, Poland/Serbia/Lithuania 2023. In Polish with English subtitles.
The fates of the Boryna family and the beautiful, mysterious Jagna are set against a backdrop of changing seasons and seasonal agricultural work. Women, especially the tragic figure of Jagna, are at the heart of the plot.
The unique microcosm of a rural community serves as a pretext to tell a universal and startlingly relevant story, one of tragic love and life in a small village where brutal rules determine everyone’s place in the collective, while transcending its constricting limits entails shaming and rejection.
The Peasants has been made using a painting-based animation technique that stole the hearts of fans around the world with the release of the studio's previous production, Loving Vincent.
Władysław Reymont’s monumental novel is filled with ornate descriptions of nature. The film has been made on the basis of painting from the Young Poland period, which perfectly expresses the novel's mood. Interpretations of the works of such artists as Józef Chełmoński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, and Leon Wyczółkowski will appear on the big screen.
The film's score was composed by the multiple award-winning producer Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski. As part of the international Rebel Babel Film Orchestra, the composer has created a unique Slavic collective of folk music that like painters through the use of traditional means (folk instruments and songs) have created a magical analog landscape that complement the beauty of the painted images. The above description comes from the film's distributor.
Admission is free for doctoral students at the Jagiellonian University, although the number of participants is limited. We ask all who are interested in attending the event to send an email to filip.mazurczak@doctoral.uj.edu.pl by Wednesday November 8th.
The introduction to the film by Filip Mazurczak, the translator of two of Reymont's books into English, will begin at 6:00 PM sharp. Please arrive on time. If you must cancel after signing up, please inform the organizer as promptly as possible.