November Night (1978)
Overview
Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama takes place on two levels - historical and metaphorical. The first one is almost a chronicle of several hours of the uprising - it shows the drama of the attitudes of Poles at the beginning of the armed struggle, in confrontation with the attitude of Grand Duke Constantine, the Tsar's deputy in Poland. The second one presents the world of gods playing out their arguments. Man becomes a plaything in their hands, but it is he who experiences his fear, heroism and hope.
Cast
Jan Nowicki
Grand Duke / Ares
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska
Joanna
Jerzy Stuhr
Wysocki
Stefan Szramel
Gendre
Stanisław Gronkowski
Kuruta
Bolesław Smela
Makrot
Aleksander Fabisiak
Ensign
Maciej Szary
Groszczyński
Leszek Piskorz
Nabielak
Marek Litewka
Student
Tadeusz Bradecki
Student
Tadeusz Jurasz
Frieze
Jerzy Fedorowicz
Faust
Ewa Kolasińska-Szramel
Małgorzata
Mieczysław Grąbka
Kudlicz
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Chłopicki
Marcin Sosnowski
Dąbrowski
Roman Stankiewicz
Lelewel
