Country life in Zakopane, Poland 1936

Country life in Zakopane, Poland 1936 

Country life in Zakopane, Poland 1936 

Scenes of country life in Zakopane, Poland, staged for the camera. Peasants cutting bread and vegetables, interior of a house, woman cooking, weaving, man enters the house and makes the sign of the cross, all are in traditional folk dress. VS, inside a church, CUs of icons. The subject shifts to a different scene: MLS, following a man in the woods, out to hunt birds with his rifle over his shoulder, camera pans up to bird's nest. A woman meets him under the tree- the man talks to her about a gun as they sit on a bench under a tree, there is a religious icon hanging on the tree. The couple frolick in the countryside. This is listed by Julien Bryan as"Estate in winter, man and wife with dog and gun"