The Contract
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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.
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Zofia Mrozowska
Maria, była żona Adama, matka Piotra
Laura Łącz
baletnica
Leslie Caron
Penelopa Wilson, bratowa Adama, matka Patrycji
Ignacy Machowski
przyjaciel Adama
Beata Tyszkiewicz
Nina, siostra Doroty
Maja Komorowska
Dorota, żona Adama
Janusz Gajos
Bolesław Bartoszuk, ojciec Lilki
Liliana Głąbczyńska
baletnica
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
dziennikarz Zygmunt, przyjaciel Piotra
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Adam Ostoja-Okędzki, ojciec Piotra
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