The Wedding

This densely allegorical satire is based on a 1901 play by Stanislaw Wyspianski, which was in turn based on a real wedding between a member of the affluent intelligentsia and a farmgirl, apparently a fashionable conceit at the time. The film, again starring Daniel Olbrychski, shows the village revelries spiralling out of control through the night, and becomes increasingly surreal as talismanic figures from history and national myth mix with the celebrants. Wajda: “[I wanted to create] a film reality in which the worlds of thoughts, feelings, and occurrences might co-exist on an equal footing; where dream and reality would imperceptibly intertwine.” Screenings of Andrzej Wajda’s films in North America in 2026 are part of the ‘Wajda 100 Tour – North America’ project, organized by DI Factory with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute. Special thanks to Jessica Rosner. A visually stunning, incredibly sensual, and increasingly surreal film of breathtaking beauty and terror. Los Angeles Times A riotous wedding celebration that doubles as a devastating autopsy of a nation in paralysis, Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of a 1901 beloved classic is as politically urgent as it is visually intoxicating. James Morton, The Independent Wajda goes for all of this with full romantic abandon. David Thompson, Time Out