THE PEASANTS is the latest film from Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman. Following on the success of her previous film Loving Vincent, which grossed $42 million at the box office, The Peasants was produced in the same painting technique that won the hearts of fans around the world. The film's screenplay is based on Władysław Reymont's novel, for which he received the Nobel Prize 100 years ago, besting Thomas Mann, Thomas Hardy, and Maxim Gorky, who were also nominees in 1924.
As a novel, ‘The Peasants’ is considered the most credible chronicle of the peasant community ever written, and it was commended by the Nobel Committee for its extraordinary painterly and poetic descriptions.
The filmmakers decided to tell this epic story using the painting technique known from ‘Loving Vincent’. It lengthened the process of making the film from about two years to more than five, but allowed to show the literary classic in a completely new light, emphasizing its timelessness, picturesqueness and torrid human emotions, and do justice to Reymont’s uniquely painterly and poetic prose.
When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
The filmmakers decided to tell this epic story using the painting technique known from ‘Loving Vincent’. It lengthened the process of making the film from about two years to more than five, but allowed to show the literary classic in a completely new light, emphasizing its timelessness, picturesqueness and torrid human emotions, and do justice to Reymont’s uniquely painterly and poetic prose.
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