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The Wedding
The Wedding
Original title	Wesele
Directed by	Wojciech Smarzowski
Written by	Wojciech Smarzowski
Produced by	Anna Iwaszkiewicz ; Dariusz Pietrykowski ; Bartłomiej Topa
Starring	Marian Dziędziel; Iwona Bielska; Tamara Arciuch; Maciej Stuhr; Bartłomiej Topa; Paweł Wilczak; Arkadiusz Jakubik; Jerzy Rogalski; Elżbieta Jarosik; Lech Dyblik ; Tomasz Sapryk
Cinematography	Andrzej Szulkowski
Edited by	Paweł Laskowski
Music by	Tymon Tymański
Release date	15 October 2004;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
Box office	$701,000

The Wedding (Polish: Wesele) is a 2004 Polish dark comedy film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski.

Plot

The movie opens with the wedding of Janusz and Kasia. The father of the bride, Wieslaw Wojnar, gives Janusz a brand-new-looking Audi.

However, during the traditional, extravagant wedding feast, it is revealed that Wojnar bought Janusz the car as a bribe to marry Kasia, as she is pregnant. Wojnar has to pay several people off so that the wedding celebration can proceed smoothly. This includes securing a plot of land from his father-in-law, who is spending a lot of time in the men's room.

One of Kasia's old lovers is hired to videotape the wedding ceremony, but he's not interested in getting money out of Wojnar, as the others are. Eventually, Wojnar's situation gets worse and worse, as he has to bribe police officers and a notary public over the course of the long, drunken evening.

Cast

Marian Dziędziel as Wojnar, Kasia's father
Iwona Bielska as Eluśka, Kasia's mother
Tamara Arciuch as Kasia
Bartłomiej Topa as Janusz, Kasia's husband
Maciej Stuhr as Cameraman Mateusz
Wojciech Skibiński as Wincenty Mróz, Eluśka's dad and Kasia's grandfather
Paweł Wilczak as brother to the priest and a gangster
Andrzej Beja-Zaborski as Adam, the priest
Lech Dyblik as uncle Edek Wąs
Jerzy Rogalski as uncle Mundek
Agnieszka Matysiak as aunt Hela
Tomasz Sapryk as sergent Styś
Arkadiusz Jakubik as notary Jan Janocha
Pawel Gędłek as Ciapara
Andrzej Mastalerz as policeman Trybus
Robert Wabich as Godfather

Awards

The director won the Eagle at the Polish Film Awards, the East of West Award - Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Youth Jury Award - Special Mention at Locarno International Film Festival, while as writer he won the Best Script award at the Warsaw International Film Festival. Marian Dziedziel (Wojnar) won the Audience Award and the Eagle at the Polish Film Awards.