The Contract
Kontrakt
Release: 1982-03-03
·Runtime: 114m
·★ 5.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Poland
Production Companies
Zespół Filmowy "Tor"
Cast
Peter Bonke
as Sven
Andrzej Pieczyński
as Dancer
Magdalena Jarosz
as Lilka Bartoszuk
Beata Tyszkiewicz
as Nina
Leslie Caron
as Penelopa Wilson
Maciej Robakiewicz
as Patrycja's Boyfriend
Jerzy Święch
as Priest
Liliana Komorowska
as baletnica
Maciej Dzienisiewicz
Wiktor Zborowski
as gość
Tadeusz Łomnicki
as Adam Ostoja-Okędzki
Nina Andrycz
as Olga Aleksandrowa
Janusz Gajos
as Bolesław Bartoszuk
Jan Jurewicz
as Zenek
Emilia Ziółkowska
as staruszka karmiąca zwierzęta
Czesław Mroczek
as (uncredited)
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
as (uncredited)
Krzysztof Kolberger
as Piotr Ostoja-Okędzki
Jolanta Kozak-Sutowicz
as Weronika
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
as Dancer Arnold
Andrzej Szenajch
as Mr. Andrzej
Irena Byrska
as Babysitter
Laura Łącz
as baletnica
Zbigniew Grusznic
Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska
as Guest
Edward Wichura
as Cook
Maja Komorowska
as Dorota
Ignacy Machowski
as Adam's Friend
Bożena Dykiel
as Ewa
Krystyna Sznerr-Mierzejewska
as śpiewająca "Ave Maria" na ślubie Lilki i Piotra
Zofia Mrozowska
as Maria
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
as Journalist Zygmunt
Agata Rzeszewska
as baletnica
Zbigniew Skowroński
Christine Paul-Podlasky
as Patrycja
