Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has acquired world sales rights for “The Peasants,” the latest feature from BreakThru Films, the animation studio behind Oscar nominee “Loving Vincent.” Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s international teaser.Principal photography has begun on a film based on the novel from Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont.
The movie will be directed by Oscar nominee Dorota Kobiela and produced with the same hand-painted technique that dramatically brought the canvases of Vincent van Gogh to life in “Loving Vincent,” the film Kobiela co-directed with Hugh Welchman.“The Peasants” is the tragic story of a peasant girl forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer, despite her love for his son.
With time, she becomes an object of envy and hate in her village and has to fight to preserve her independence.
The film captures the rigors of rural
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