Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz full title: Mister Thaddeus, or a Last Foray in Lithuania: a Nobility's Tale of the Years 1811–1812, in Twelve Books of Verse is an epic poems in European literature.

Pan Tadeusz, Poland's compulsory reading in Polish schools as living as has been translated into 33 languages. A film version, directed by Andrzej Wajda, was released in 1999. In 2014 Pan Tadeusz was incorporated into Poland's list in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.

Film adaptations

The first film version of the poem as a feature was exposed in 1928. The film version delivered by Andrzej Wajda in 1999 was his great cinematic success in Poland.