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Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.Read moreLess
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
The story
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Cast & crew
Maja KomorowskaDorota
Tadeusz ŁomnickiAdam Ostoja-Okędzki
Magdalena JaroszLilka Bartoszuk
Krzysztof KolbergerPiotr Ostoja-Okędzki
Nina AndryczOlga Aleksandrowa
Zofia MrozowskaMaria
Beata Tyszkiewicz
Janusz GajosBolesław Bartoszuk
Edward Linde-LubaszenkoJournalist Zygmunt
Ignacy MachowskiAdam's Friend
Christine Paul-PodlaskyPatrycja
Peter BonkeSvenExplore the crew
- Director
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Writer
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Editor
- Urszula Śliwińska
- Director of Photography
- Sławomir Idziak
- Original Music Composer
- Wojciech Kilar