''The Wedding'' ( pl, Wesele), also known as ''The Wedding Day'' and ''The Wedding Day 2'', is a 2021 Polish
dark comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...
film directed by
Wojciech Smarzowski
Wojciech Smarzowski (born 18 January 1963 in Korczyna, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Korczyna near Krosno) is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His ...
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Cast
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Robert Więckiewicz
Robert Więckiewicz (born 30 June 1967) is a Polish film and television actor from Nowa Ruda, Poland. In 2013, he received Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his role in film ''Walesa: Man of Hope''.
Selected filmogra ...
as Rysiek Wilk
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Agata Kulesza
Agata Kulesza-Figurska (; born 27 September 1971) is a Polish film, television and stage actress, and a member of the Polish Film Academy. as Ela Wilk
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Michalina Łabacz as Kasia Wilk
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Przemysław Przestrzelski as Janek Sczuczyński
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Agata Turkot as Lea
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Arkadiusz Jakubik
Arkadiusz Jakubik (; born 14 January 1969 in Strzelce Opolskie) is a Polish actor, scriptwriter, voice actor and musician. Known mainly for portrayal of a disabled cop Rysio in '' 13 posterunek'' sitcom and for wide collaboration with Wojciech Sm ...
as Wodzirej / Wardoń
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Andrzej Chyra as Bogdan / Głowacki
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Maria Sobocińska as Inka
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Henryk Gołębiewski as Banaś / Furman
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Ryszard Ronczewski
Ryszard Ronczewski (27 June 1930 – 17 October 2020) was a Polish actor.
He appeared in more than seventy films from 1954 to 2021 (the premiere of '' The Wedding'' occurred a few months after his death).
Ronczewski died from COVID-19 on 17 Octo ...
as Antoni Wilk
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Mateusz Więcławek as the young Antoni Wilk
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Robert Wabich
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
as Zajdel
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Sebastian Stegmann as Hermann Schmidt
Production
''The Wedding'' is a follow up to Smarzowski's 2004 film by
the same name. Filming took place in Poland and Latvia between July and December 2020.
Release
''The Wedding'' was released on 8 October 2021. It performed well on its opening weekend, selling 139,536 tickets and per
Film New Europe had the "best opening for a local production in 2021."
Reception
In a praising critique of the film published by ''Kino Mania'', Giuseppe Sedia noted that Smarzowski "invited to banquet on the big screen the same old sampler of vulgarians, bribable clerics and small town grandstanders. Subtleties aside, the Pieter Bruegel of Polish cinema offers once more a caricatural but clear-cut depiction of provincial Poland, dissolute, immobile and greedy as usual".
Screen Anarchy
Screen Anarchy, previously known as Twitch Film or Twitch, is a Canadian English-language website featuring news and reviews of mainly international, independent and cult films. The website was founded in 2004 by Todd Brown. In addition to films, ...
reviewed the film, writing "For the recurring didacticism and programmatic disruption of nationalistic self-image, ''The Wedding Day'' is an uncomfortable history revision delivered in a masterful and provocative high-wire act of genre, commercial and arthouse filmmaking of intense social relevance."
References
External links
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The Wedding' at Film Polski (link in Polish)
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Polish black comedy films
Films about weddings
2021 black comedy films
2020s Polish-language films