Rebel Babel Ensemble / Film Orchestra with Polish and American musicians will perform soundtrack from The Peasants. Live folk-orchestral music performance connected with hundreds of animated paintings.

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.