Pan Tadeusz
About Pan Tadeusz
The film adapts Adam Mickiewicz's poem. In the Lithuanian countryside in 1811 and 1812, the Soplica and Horeszko families are feuding. Tadeusz Soplica comes home and falls in love with Zosia, while Polish nobles look toward Napoleon's war with Russia.
Cast & crew
More about Pan Tadeusz
Ryszard Ordyński directed. Ferdynand Goetel and Andrzej Strug wrote the adaptation. The premiere was on November 9, 1928, at the Philharmonic on Jasna Street in Warsaw. Culture.pl records that President Ignacy Mościcki and Marshal Józef Piłsudski were in the audience.
Themes
Background
The premiere audience included the president and the marshal, and writers including Zofia Nałkowska, Jan Lechoń, and Antoni Słonimski wrote about the opening.
Look
Antoni Wawrzyniak and Janusz Wasung photographed the film.
Preservation
Copies were taken out of Poland in the war and most of the film was treated as lost. About 40 minutes were back at the National Film Archive by the 1950s. In 2006 damaged reels turned up in Wrocław, and restorers recovered close to 120 minutes.
Notes
- Leon Łuszczewski plays Tadeusz. Stanisław Knake-Zawadzki plays Judge Soplica. Jan Szymański plays Jacek Soplica, the priest Robak.
- Mariusz Maszyński plays Count Horeszko, Helena Sulimowa plays Telimena, and Zofia Zajączkowska plays Zosia.
- Wojciech Brydziński appears as Mickiewicz.
- An earlier attempt to film the poem was made by cinematographer Zygfryd Mayflauer around 1919–1920.
- A circulating copy runs 2 hours, 5 minutes, and 46 seconds.
Influenced by
- Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz