Adam Mickiewicz

"The Nixie", is a dark folk tale, based on an old Polish legend, immortalized by Adam Mickiewicz in a poem of the same name. It tells the story of a water nymph who takes on a human form to seduce a young man she encounters in the forest. Mesmerized, he makes a vow of love towards her, and the woman transforms back into the nymph to test his love. The young man, who does not know the nymph and woman are the same, succumbs to her mystical beauty and breaks his vow. The nymph then takes her revenge by swallowing him into the lake, where he will eternally remain as his punishment. The film begins in a life-like world and slowly morphs into the fantastical as the line between the real and the mystical blur. A coming-of-age fairy-tale, "The Fairy of Switez Lake" is a modern, seductive, filmic poem with a catchy new wave soundtrack for this timeless cautionary tale.

Lituania, 1812. Polonia está tachada del mapa de Europa. Dos grandes familias se enfrentan entre sí: los Soplica, aliados de los rusos, y los Horeszko, defensores de la independencia polaca. Tras veinte años de conflicto, Jacek Soplica ha matado al último señor de la casa de los Horeszko, que le había negado la mano de su hija. Para reparar su terrible falta, Jacek adopta la identidad de un monje bernardino y se encarga de la educación de Sophie, descendiente de los Horeszko. Su objetivo es desposarla con su hijo Tadeusz, quien acaba de regresar tras finalizar sus estudios. Pero en junio de 1812, Napoleón Bonaparte, en su avance hacia Moscú, franquea el Niemen. Entonces Tadeusz decide unirse al ejército, frustrando así los planes matrimoniales que su padre tenía para él.

In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Pan Tadeusz (film 1928) is a Polish historical film directed by Ryszard Ordynski based on the national epic of Poland, an 1834 poem by Adam Mickiewicz.