The Dryden will screen Wesele (The Wedding, Andrzej Wajda, Poland 1973, 102 min., DCP, Polish w/subtitles) as part of the Polish Film Festival series and Halloween series.

Poland's most prominent filmmaker, Andrzej Wajda adapts a turn-of-the-century play that deals with Poland's troublesome past and the perils of its drive toward self-determination. A poet marries a peasant girl in Kraków, across class lines. As the reception moves from the city to the village and guests revel in the union, figures from Poland's history and culture begin to appear, representing the guilty consciences of the characters. The poet is visited by the Black Knight, a journalist, and a Cossack bard, who debate the country's past and its future.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-21]