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The Contract

17 Nov 1980
114 min
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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

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Leslie Caron

Penelopa Wilson, bratowa Adama, matka Patrycji

Ignacy Machowski

przyjaciel Adama

Beata Tyszkiewicz

Nina, siostra Doroty

Maja Komorowska

Dorota, żona Adama

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Janusz Gajos

Bolesław Bartoszuk, ojciec Lilki

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Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

dziennikarz Zygmunt, przyjaciel Piotra

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Tadeusz Łomnicki

Adam Ostoja-Okędzki, ojciec Piotra

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