The Contract
1980-11-17 (US) • Drama • 114minutes
Overview:
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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Maja Komorowska

Dorota, żona Adama

Tadeusz Łomnicki

Adam Ostoja-Okędzki, ojciec Piotra

Magdalena Jarosz

Lilka Bartoszuk, żona Piotra

Krzysztof Kolberger

Piotr Ostoja-Okędzki

Nina Andrycz

Olga Aleksandrowa, kierowniczka baletu opery

Zofia Mrozowska

Maria, była żona Adama, matka Piotra

Beata Tyszkiewicz

Nina, siostra Doroty

Janusz Gajos

Bolesław Bartoszuk, ojciec Lilki

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

dziennikarz Zygmunt, przyjaciel Piotra

Ignacy Machowski

przyjaciel Adama

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