Dibbuk – Eine Hochzeit in Polen (2015)
66KDibbuk – Eine Hochzeit in Polen: Directed by Marcin Wrona. With Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska, Andrzej Grabowski, Tomasz Schuchardt. A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
“Through his best friend in London, Peter (Itay Tiran) meets Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska), and soon he travels to her home village in Poland to marry her and settle down in the large, if somewhat isolated, house of her parents. Left there overnight, he does some digging and appears to uncover a skeleton; but the next morning, the hole and the bones are gone, and Peter has spent a rather strange night. Shrugging it all off, Peter and Zaneta marry and a huge party is held at the house; much dancing, speechifying and, especially, drinking of vodka ensues. But Peter isnu0026#39;t feeling quite himself shortly after the party begins, and soon heu0026#39;s acting *very* much out of characterÂ…. This is a retelling of the Yiddish tale of the dybbuk, a kind of ghost story, and itu0026#39;s very well done here – the acting is excellent, the atmosphere alternates between wild partying and sheer creepiness, and the horror, while striking, is more of the quiet variety than the blood-splatter type (for which I was grateful). I donu0026#39;t know how available it is in North America – I saw it at Montrealu0026#39;s always-brilliant Fantasia Festival – but itu0026#39;s well worth searching for!”
