Balladyna aka The Bait is a 2009 Polish thriller, produced and directed by Dariusz Zawiślak.
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Plot
The film is based on one of the dramas from the Epoch of the Romanticism - Balladyna, written in Geneva in 1834 (and published for the first time in Paris in 1839) by poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki. Although the original drama was influenced by William Shakespeare's plays King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, Balladyna is an original romantic work. The plot is set at the time of Poland's origins. There is King Popiel, deprived of power by a usurper; the noble prince Kirkor, aiming to restore King Popiel's rule; the queen of the Gopło Lake and the elves; and two beautiful sisters, one good, the other bad. Balladyna, greedy for power, gains it through a number of crimes, including the killing of her sister Alina, the contender to marry Kirkor. In the finale Balladyna dies, struck by divine justice.
Cast
Faye Dunaway as dr Ash
Sonia Bohosiewicz as Balladyna / Alina
Mirosław Baka as Kirk
Rafał Cieszyński as Chris
Władysław Kowalski as Father
Sławomir Orzechowski as Detevtive Ribb
Stefan Friedmann as Mr. Lotter
Tadeusz Borowski as doctor
Magdalena Górska as lab technician