‘Loving Vincent’ Creators Release Concept Trailer for New Film ‘The Peasants’, with Same Painting Technique
The Peasants will be produced in the same painting technique you know from Loving Vincent.
Initially, we will shoot the movie with actors, and then paint each frame as a separate oil painting. More than sixty painters will work in three studios to complete the 72,000 frames making up the film
Tomasz Wochniak – Line Producer, BreakThru Films
’The Peasants’ is a tragic story of a peasant girl Jagna forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and hate of the villagers and has to fight to preserve her independence. Set in the Polish countryside on the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries, the story’s dramatic turns tie into the changing seasons, hard labour in the fields and traditional local holidays.
After years of working on a film about Vincent van Gogh I felt a strong need to tell a story about women: to show their struggles and their passion and their strength
Dorota Kobiela – Screenwriter and Director of the movie
Naturalistic in style, but epic in scope, this novel is written by Wladyslaw Reymont who was awarded with the Nobel prize in 1924 over Thomas Mann, Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy. The monumental work of Reymont is filled with picturesque descriptions of nature. It will be brought to life based on the popular Realist/ pre-impressionist genre of paintings from the 19th century with an emphasis on the Young Poland Movement and the works of such artists as Józef Chełmoński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc and Leon Wyczółkowski.