Nights and Days

''Nights and Days'' is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, (played by ''Jadwiga Barańska'') and Bogumił Niechcic, (played by ''Jerzy Bińczycki'') against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) ''Niechcic'' family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.