Nights and Days

Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara OstrzenskaNiechcic played by Jadwiga Baranska and Bogumil Niechcic played by Jerzy Binczycki 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 Dabrowska with the same title The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble upperclass Niechcic family in the preWWI 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