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Balladyna (film)

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Balladyna
Directed byDariusz Zawiślak
Written byDariusz Zawiślak
Produced byDariusz Zawiślak
Music byChris Rafael
Release date
  • 2009 (2009)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Poland
LanguagesEnglish, Polish

Balladyna aka The Bait is a 2009 thriller, produced and directed by Dariusz Zawiślak.[1][2][3]

Literature

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Faye Dunaway and Mirosław Baka in Balladyna by Dariusz Zawislak

The film is based on one of the dramas from the Epoch of the Romanticism - Balladyna, written in Geneva in 1834 (and published for the first time in Paris in 1839) by poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki.[4] Although the original drama was influenced by William Shakespeare's plays King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, Balladyna is an original romantic work. The plot is set at the time of Poland's origins. There is King Popiel, deprived of power by a usurper; the noble prince Kirkor, aiming to restore King Popiel's rule; the queen of the Gopło Lake and the elves; and two beautiful sisters, one good, the other bad. Balladyna, greedy for power, gains it through a number of crimes, including the killing of her sister Alina, the contender to marry Kirkor. In the finale Balladyna dies, struck by divine justice.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Balladyna zgwałcona". Wyborcza. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Balladyna w Nowym Jorku". Newsweek Polska. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Powstaje komiksowa wersja filmu "Balladyna"". Wirtualna Polska. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  4. ^ Biography of Juliusz Słowacki
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