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"Polish Wedding," filmed in Hamtramck,
celebrates the drama of a world that was.

ALAN ABRAMS
Special to the Jewish News

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reparing to make love to her
boss Roman (Rade Serbedzi-
ja) on the floor of the corpo-
rate men's bathroom, Polish
cleaning woman Jadzia (Lena Olin)
tells him, "You're a Gypsy." As she
rolls over on top of him, he replies,
"I'm not a Gypsy, you know, I'm a
Jew."
This on-camera lovemaking in Pol-
ish Wedding, a story of passions, jeal-
ousies and entanglements facing a
working-class, Polish-American clan
from Hamtramck, implies sexual and
class domination in a scene that cre-
ates more than just a hint of exploita-
tion by a wealthy Jewish businessman.
Rade Serbedzija, the talented actor
from the former Yugoslavia who plays
Roman Kroll, the Jewish lover of the
married Jadzia, looks much the same
here as he did in his role in Val
Kilmer's The Saint — more a villain
than a successful Hamtramck busi-
nessman.
And it isn't clear at this point in the
film if Olin's relationship with her

Alan Abrams is a freelance writer
based in Toledo.

boss involves on-the-job sexual harass-
ment or not. But I was uncomfortable
every time they were together on
screen, because I dreaded that the
issue of his being a Jew would be
raised again, perhaps this time nega-
tively.
However, not to worry. Roman's
mention of his ethnic identity is the
extent of Polish Wedding's Jewish con-
tent — this despite the fact that Israeli
Academy Award winner Mili Avital
plays a key supporting role in the film
as Olin's daughter-in-law and co-
worker Sofie.
Avital, a top box-office draw in
Israel and one of the nation's most
popular and beloved stars, won her
Israeli Academy Award in 1991 for
Best Supporting Actress in Over the
Ocean, and was recently nominated
for Best Actress in Groupie.
She moved to the United States in
1993 and has since appeared in Star
Gate with Kurt Russell and Dead Man
opposite Johnny Depp. More recently,
she starred with her real-life boyfriend,
David Schwimmer, in Kissing a Fool.
After Avital's character, Sofie, is
asked by Jadzia, "What does a Gypsy
know?" — calling people Gypsies
appears to be Jadzia's favorite pejora-
tive — Sofie reminds Jadzia that she's

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Gabriel Byrne and Lena Olin star as a married couple facing the wife's infidelities in
"Polish Wedding."

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