The first fully oil-painted feature film, the Vincent Van Gogh biopic Loving Vincent was a work of epic proportions, taking 125 painters over six years to create, resulting in 65,000 painted frames. Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman’s feature ended up taking in $52 million worldwide on a $5.5 million budget, and now the team is back with their follow-up, The Peasants. Ahead of a premiere later this year, a new trailer has arrived for the project.
The adaptation of the Wladyslaw Reymont novel tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th-century Polish village––a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colorful traditions and a deep-rooted patriarchy. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community,...
The adaptation of the Wladyslaw Reymont novel tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th-century Polish village––a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colorful traditions and a deep-rooted patriarchy. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The first fully oil-painted feature film, the Vincent Van Gogh biopic Loving Vincent was a work of epic proportions, taking 125 painters over six years to create, resulting in 65,000 painted frames. Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s feature ended up taking in $52 million worldwide on a $5.5 million budget, and now the team is back with their follow-up, The Peasants.
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, it tells the tragic story of a peasant girl Jagna forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and hate of the villagers and has to fight to preserve her independence. 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 traditional local holidays.
Kobiela will be...
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, it tells the tragic story of a peasant girl Jagna forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and hate of the villagers and has to fight to preserve her independence. 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 traditional local holidays.
Kobiela will be...
- 8/25/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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