Pan Tadeusz

Set in 1811, two Polish families, the Soplicas and the Horeszkos, are embrioled in a bitter feud over differences arising from a bloody night when the dashing Jacek Soplica was rejected as a suitor for Count Horeszko's daughter and took advantage of a Russian assault on the count's castle to kill him. At that moment, the count's faithful warden, the hulking, scarred Gervais vowed vengeance. Years later, the matter remains unresolved and Jacek's brother, the judge, is locked in a lawsuit over the castle while his nephew Tadeusz becomes smitten with Sosia, the beautiful ward of his manipulative aunt Telimena.