THE PEASANTS, a candidate for Best Animated Feature Film, will be available only in theaters, starting January 26 in New York, then February 2 in Los Angeles, and coming soon to theaters nationwide.

A late 19th century Polish village is a hotbed of gossip and ongoing feuds, held together by pride, tradition and a deep-rooted patriarchy. Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community.

The Guardian calls the film “a story of a free-spirited young beauty in late 19th-century rural Poland who falls foul of the repressive patriarchy, the petty-minded jealousies simmering in her village, and her own extremely poor judgment in this lavish rotoscoped and oil-painted animation. (…) And the film is a match for Lars von Trier’s Dogville in its grimly relentless approach to misogyny and sexual violence. A disconcertingly beautiful picture about the ugliness of humanity.”

The animation is based on a classic Polish novel “Peasants” (Chłopi) by Władysław Reymont who was awarded for this book the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924.

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