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Balladyna (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Balladyna' aka 'The Bait' is a 2009 thriller, produced and directed by Dariusz Zawilak.
Literature
and Mirosaw Baka in 'Balladyna' by Dariusz Zawislak
The film is based on one of the dramas from the 'Epoch of the Romanticism - Balladyna', written in Geneva in 1834 (and published for the first time in Paris in 1839) by poet and dramatist Juliusz Sowacki.[http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/slowacki Biography of Juliusz Sowacki ] Although the original drama was influenced by William Shakespeare's plays 'King Lear', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Macbeth', Balladyna is an original romantic work. The plot is set at the time of Poland's origins. There is King Popiel, deprived of power by a usurper; the noble prince Kirkor, aiming to restore King Popiel's rule; the queen of the Gopo Lake and the elves; and two beautiful sisters, one good, the other bad. Balladyna, greedy for power, gains it through a number of crimes, including the killing of her sister Alina, the contender to marry Kirkor. In the finale Balladyna dies, struck by divine justice.
Cast
* Faye Dunaway
*Sonia Bohosiewicz
*Mirosaw Baka
*Rafa Cieszyski
*Wadysaw Kowalski
*Sawomir Orzechowski
*Stefan Friedmann
*Tadeusz Borowski
*Magdalena Grska
References
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