A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
Acting
Itay Tiran's physical transformation without cheap effects.
Direction
Wrona's single-location pressure cooker — a wedding that never ends.
Sound
The score dissolves into drunken chaos as reality unravels.
Director
Marcin Wrona
Itay Tiran
Piotr 'Pyton'
Agnieszka Żulewska
Żaneta
Andrzej Grabowski
Zygmunt
Tomasz Schuchardt
Jasny
Adam Woronowicz
Doctor
Włodzimierz Press
Teacher
Tomasz Ziętek
Ronaldo
Katarzyna Gniewkowska
Zofia
Cezary Kosiński
Priest
Maja Barełkowska
Aunt
Anna Smołowik
Bridesmaid
Maria Dębska
Hana
Piotr Domalewski
Dance Leader
Katarzyna Herman
Gabryjelska
Filip Pławiak
Cousin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Marcin Wrona died by suicide at Gdynia Film Festival, days after Demon's Polish premiere — making its themes of inherited trauma unbearably prophetic.
The dybbuk legend was nearly extinct in Polish cinema; Wrona revived it to confront how Poland buried its Jewish history — the 'English' spoken at the wedding is a ghost language, like the ghost in the room.
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