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THE MAIDS OF WILKO

PANNY Z WILKA

ANDRZEJ WAJDA

POLAND | FRANCE / POLISH / 1979 / 116 mins

Set in the late ’20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time.

1920ರ ದಶಕದ ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವ ಕಥೆ ಇದು. ಒಂದು ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಾರ್ಖಾನೆಯನ್ನು ನಡೆಸುವ ಮೂವತ್ತು ವರ್ಷದ ಯುವಕನೊಬ್ಬ ತನ್ನ ಆಪ್ತ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತನ ಅಂತ್ಯಕ್ರಿಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂರ್ಛೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅವನು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಸಮಯದವರೆಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಚಿಕ್ಕಮ್ಮ ಮತ್ತು ಚಿಕ್ಕಪ್ಪನ ಮನೆಗೆ ಹೋಗಲು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ, ಆದರೆ ಒಂದು ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನನ್ನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಐವರು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಕುಟುಂಬದೊಂದಿಗೆ ನಂಟು ಬೆಳೆಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾನೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company:

Tony Molière

Screenplay:

Zbigniew Kamiński

Director of Photography:

Edward Kłosiński

Editor :

Halina Prugar-Ketling

Music :

Karol Szymanowski

Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016) was a towering Polish filmmaker and a key figure of the Polish Film School who shaped postwar European cinema. Born in Suwałki, he joined the anti-Nazi resistance as a teenager, experiences that deeply informed his work. He studied painting in Kraków and film directing in Łódź. Wajda gained international recognition with his wartime trilogy A GENERATION (1954), CANAL (1957), and ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1959). His prolific career blended history, political critique, and humanism in films such as THE BIRCH WOOD (1971), THE PROMISED LAND (1975), MAN OF MARBLE (1977), MAN OF IRON (1981), and DANTON (1982).