The Peasants

Synopsis

One of poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the nobel prize for literaturea penguin classicin the village of lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful jagusia as his bride – but she only has eyes for his impetuous son antek. Over the course of four seasons – autumn to summer – the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip jagustynka, pious roch, hot-blooded mateusz, gentle witek.