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| | village voice > film > Poles Apart by Elliott Stein |
 | | His new film, Pan Tadeusz, the Last Foray in Lithuania (did Mel Brooks supply the title?), is based on an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, set in Lithuania on the eve of Napoleon's expedition into Russia in 1812. |
 | | Tadeusz (Michal Zebrowski), an orphan of 20 with pure soul and virile charm, comes to stay with his uncle, Judge Soplica. |
 | | After tons of byzantine plot, not often easy to follow, and a good many scenes of cruelty to man and beast, Tadeusz woos and weds Sophie (Alicja Bachleda-Curus), who is a Horeszko on her mother's side, putting paid to the bitter feud. |
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