Anonymous Content Teams With New Europe Film Sales To Handle North American Rights For Animated Feature ‘The Peasants’ From ‘Loving Vincent’ Filmmakers
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has partnered with New Europe Film Sales to handle North American rights for animated feature The Peasants, directed by Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent filmmakers D.K.
Welchman and Hugh Welchman. The project is adapted from Wladyslaw Reymont’s classic novel of the same name and is produced in the same oil painting format as Loving Vincent.
The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colorful traditions and a deep-rooted patriarchy.
When she 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.
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