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Kontrakt (The Contract) (1980)

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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

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Krzysztof Zanussi

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Contract uses a marriage ceremony to satirize the amorality in contemporary Poland.

January 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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