The husband-and-wife team behind 2019 feature animation Oscar nominee Loving Vincent, DK and Hugh Welchman, is back in the awards race this season with The Peasants.
Adapted from Nobel Prize-winning writer Władysław Reymont’s classic turn-of-the-century novel of the same name, the production uses the same hand-painted technique as its predecessor but on a grander scale.
The drama revolves a free-spirited young woman, Jagna, determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village.
She is knocked off course when she is married off to a wealthy widower, while being in love with his son. Alongside being Poland’s International Feature Film Oscar entry, the work is also in the running for Animated Feature. RELATED: Oscars Unveil Eligible Films List For International Feature, Feature Documentary And Animated Feature Categories Hugh Welchman credits wife DK with coming up with the idea of adapting the novel. “It’s a classic in Poland but when she read it at 16, she struggled with it.
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