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.

Европа. 1811 год. После раздела Речи Посполитой часть литовских и польских земель отошла к России. Поляки стремятся к независимости и свободе. Это их стремление выливается в открытое вооруженное выступление против российской армии, в надежде на скорейшую поддержку двинувшихся на восток войск Наполеона. На фоне всех этих событий — любовь молодого польского офицера пана Тадеуша и очаровательной Софии, принадлежащих к двум враждующим семьям, подобно ситуации в знаменитой шекспировской трагедии. Находясь на рубеже великих поворотов истории, никто из героев и не подозревает, что ждет их впереди…

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.