Young Gala | Winners of the 48th PFF - Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych". 22 September 2023 . Retrieved 9 October 2023. Working from studios in Poland, Serbia, Lithuania and Ukraine, the animators tallied more than a quarter of a million man-hours between them, painting under two frames per day — half the output they were able to achieve on “Loving Vincent.” Nearly three-quarters of the painters employed on that film ultimately had to leave “The Peasants”“because they didn’t have the techniques, the skills to reach this level of realism,” says D.K. I also found the level of antisemitism disconcerting. A Jewish tavern-keeper is an agent of evil in the plot. But he is only one of several such agents, so I can accept that. It wasn't so easy to accept frequent use of the term, "Jew", in a pejorative sense. The novel's setting was destined to be the center of the Holocaust only 15 years later, so the antisemitism was a fact of life in that time and place. Symbolism - the use of symbols to represent ideas, especially in art and literature (the scene of the Maciej's death, which symbolises a strong relationship between people and nature).

Religion is another powerful theme that echoes through the book. While we see the church’s pervasive power, reflecting the deep religiosity prevalent across 19th century Poland, the village priest’s threats of everlasting damnation issued from the pulpit do little to stop some of Lipce’s residents from partaking in all manner of vices, including an older woman’s attempt to seduce a young trainee priest. Despite being married to Maciej Boryna, Jagna still has a secret affair with the exiled Antek. Maciej repeatedly catches his wife with his son. In addition, Maciej is troubled by the decision of the landowners' court to cut down forests belonging to the peasants. He gathers men from the village to take revenge on the landowners. During the Fierce fight with the landowners' emissaries Maciej is seriously injured, for which Antek takes brutal revenge. The fights are interrupted by the intrusion of Russian troops, who arrest many peasants from Lipce, including Antek. Meanwhile Jagna, accused of bringing misfortune upon the village, struggles with increasing isolation. Aware that oppression can be imposed from within as well as without, our peasant adds: “In Polish times their only care for the people was to drive them to labour at the end of a whip and oppress them, while they partied until they’d partied the whole nation away.” Goodfellow, Melanie (28 June 2023). " 'The Peasants' Teaser: Makers Of Oscar-Nominated 'Loving Vincent' Return With "More Spectacular" 19th Century Epic Drama". Deadline . Retrieved 1 August 2023. A new English translation, by Anna Zaranko, was published in November 2022. [1] Film and television adaptations [ edit ]Critics admit a number of similarities between Reymont and the Naturalists. They stress that this was not a "borrowed" Naturalism but rather a record of life as experienced by the writer. Moreover, Reymont never formulated an aesthetic of his writing. In that, he resembled other Polish autodidacts such as Mikołaj Rej and Aleksander Fredro. With little higher education and inability to read another language, Reymont realized that it was his knowledge of grounded reality, not literary theory, that was his strong suit.

The conflict between Antek and his father which is connected with a piece of land and a beautiful woman – Jagna.In 1925, somewhat recovered, he went to a farmers' meeting in Wierzchosławice near Kraków, where Wincenty Witos welcomed him as a member of the Polish People's Party "Piast" and praised his writing skills. Soon afterward, Reymont's health deteriorated. He died in Warsaw in December 1925 and was buried in the Powązki Cemetery. The urn holding his heart was laid in a pillar of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw. The 28th Busan International Film Festival: Selection List". Busan International Film Festival. 5 September 2023 . Retrieved 12 September 2023.