Nights and Days
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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| Directed by | Jerzy Antczak |
| Written by |
Jerzy Antczak Maria Dąbrowska |
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Jadwiga Barańska Jerzy Bińczycki Beata Tyszkiewicz Andrzej Seweryn Jerzy Kamas Elżbieta Starostecka |
| Music by | Waldemar Kazanecki |
| Cinematography | Stanisław Loth |
| Distributed by | Studio Filmowe Kadr |
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632 minutes (TV version) |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
Nights and Days (Polish: Noce i dnie) is a 1975 Polish film directed by Jerzy Antczak. This epic family drama was based on Maria Dąbrowska's novel Noce i dnie, and was described by The Washington Post as "Poland's Gone With the Wind". Set in Kalisz and the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the film presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society, life in exile, and the confiscation of private property as told through the loves and struggles of the Niechcic family. This sweeping historical epic was the highest-grossing film in Poland's history upon its release and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1977. The film score was composed by Waldemar Kazanecki, which includes a Viennese waltz that is frequently played at Polish weddings as the first dance of bride and groom.
Amid the turbulence of World War I, elderly Barbara Niechcic (Jadwiga Barańska) recalls her dramatic life with husband Bogumił (Jerzy Bińczycki) over a half-century of Polish history, starting with the failed January Uprising in 1863. Barbara, running away from burning city of Kalisz is reminiscing her unfulfilled love, her marriage to a man she does not initially love, death of her first child, birth of three others, confiscation of her family property, abandoning her husband, his illness, death and other numerous family struggles.
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Barańska) and Bogumił Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Bińczycki) against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-World War I Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.
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