The Peasants/Chlopi, 2023
The Peasants/Chlopi, 2023
CHŁOPI (eng. THE PEASANTS) 2022, dir. Dorota Kobiela — concept trailer
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władyslaw Reymont, the story follows a young woman in the late 19th century who is forced to marry a wealthy farmer, despite her love for his son. The townspeople come to despise her, but she fights on. Set in the Polish countryside on the cusp of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the story’s dramatic turns tie into the changing seasons, hard labor in the fields, and the traditional local holidays. The look is inspired “by popular realist and pre-impressionist paintings from the 19th Century, with an emphasis on the Young Poland Movement and the works of such artists as Józef Chełmoński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, and Leon Wyczółkowski.” It won’t be done until 2022, considering every frame (over ~65,000) has to be painted by hand.
