The Dryden will screen Pan Tadeusz (Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, Andrzej Wajda, Poland/France 1999, 147 min., 35mm, Polish w/subtitles) as part of the 100 Years of Polish Independence series.

To celebrate a hundred years of Polish independence and add an illuminating postscript to last year's Andrzej Wajda retrospective, we present one of the Polish master's most ambitious and popular films. Pan Tadeusz is a grandiose historical spectacle, both epic and lyrical, based on the eponymous work by the famed Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz, depicting the nation's struggle to define its own identity after centuries of complicated relations with its neighbors and historical European superpowers.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-May-28]