Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Director:
Writer:
Maja Komorowska
Dorota
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Adam Ostoja-Okędzki
Magdalena Jarosz
Lilka Bartoszuk
Krzysztof Kolberger
Piotr Ostoja-Okędzki
Nina Andrycz
Olga Aleksandrowa
Zofia Mrozowska
Maria
Beata Tyszkiewicz
Nina
Janusz Gajos
Bolesław Bartoszuk
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Journalist Zygmunt
Ignacy Machowski
Adam's Friend
Christine Paul-Podlasky
Patrycja
Peter Bonke
Sven
Leslie Caron
Penelopa Wilson
Irena Byrska
Babysitter
Jolanta Kozak-Sutowicz
Weronika
Maciej Robakiewicz
Patrycja's Boyfriend
Jerzy Święch
Priest
Bożena Dykiel
Ewa
Liliana Głąbczyńska
baletnica
Laura Łącz
baletnica
Krystyna Sznerr-Mierzejewska
śpiewająca "Ave Maria" na ślubie Lilki i Piotra
Jan Jurewicz
Zenek
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
Dancer Arnold
Maciej Dzienisiewicz
Zbigniew Grusznic
Andrzej Pieczyński
Dancer
Agata Rzeszewska
baletnica
Zbigniew Skowroński
Andrzej Szenajch
Mr. Andrzej
Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska
Guest
Edward Wichura
Cook
Wiktor Zborowski
gość
Emilia Ziółkowska
staruszka karmiąca zwierzęta
Czesław Mroczek
(uncredited)
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
(uncredited)
