November Night

November Night (1978)

DramaHistoryFantasy

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.

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Casts

	Jan Nowicki as Grand Duke / Ares
	Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska as Joanna
	Jerzy Stuhr as Wysocki
	Stefan Szramel as Gendre
	Stanisław Gronkowski as Kuruta
	Bolesław Smela as Makrot
	Adam Romanowski as Officer
	Aleksander Fabisiak as Ensign
	Maciej Szary as Groszczyński
	Leszek Piskorz as Nabielak
	Marek Litewka as Student
	Tadeusz Bradecki as Student
	Tadeusz Jurasz as Frieze
	Zofia Niwińska as Theatre Director
	Jerzy Fedorowicz as Faust
	Ewa Kolasińska-Szramel as Małgorzata
	Mieczysław Grąbka as Kudlicz
	Edward Linde-Lubaszenko as Chłopicki
	Marcin Sosnowski as Dąbrowski
	Roman Stankiewicz as Lelewel
	Margita Dukiet as Lelewel's Sister
	Jerzy Święch as Bronikowski
	Ryszard Łukowski as Czechowski
	Andrzej Hudziak as Zaliwski
	Jan Piechociński as Gendre's Son
	Andrzej Buszewicz as Wincenty Krasiński
	Piotr Zaborowski as Boy
	Tadeusz Huk as Lubowidzki
	Edward Dobrzański as Potocki
	Teodor Gendera as Nowicki
	Wiesław Nowosielski as Coachman
	Janusz Kijowski as Łukasiński
	Barbara Bosak as Pallas Athena
	Ewa Ciepiela as Napoleonic Nike
	Monika Niemczyk as Nike of Salamis
	Elżbieta Will as Nike of Thermopylae
	Elżbieta Karkoszka as Nike of Chaeronea
	Anna Dymna as Kore
	Wanda Kruszewska as Soloist
	Juliusz Grabowski as Satyr
	Wiesław Wójcik as Satyr
	Zofia Jaroszewska as Demeter

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