Autumn In the village of Lipce lives a beautiful young peasant woman named Jagna Paczesiówna, who is talented in making cutouts.

In addition, the elder Boryna, who is a widower wanting to remarry, decides to marry Jagna and give her six acres of land as a dowry, a deal that pleases her mother, Dominikowa, but opposed by Antek and Hanka.

Boryna, lying wounded in bed, secretly informs his daughter-in-law where to find his hidden stash of money, which she then spends on food for her children.

After Boryna is laid to rest, Antek is set free and returns home to Hanka's delight and takes over his father's farm.

Believing that Jagna's promiscuity has brought God's wrath on Lipce, the villagers elect to banish her, a punishment that Antek allows them to carry out.

Mateusz, Dominikowa, and a family friend named Jagustynka attempt to protect Jagna, but the angry villagers knock them unconscious.

[11] The score is by Łukasz Rostkowski[7] (aka "L.U.C"), a Polish MC, rapper, activist, and music producer based in Wrocław.

As not all Ukrainian artists were able to leave, in August 2022 BreakThru Films helped to relaunch the MOREFILM animation studio in Kyiv, providing work for fifteen painters and staff.

However, the painters wanted to continue to create, and arranged their schedule to the rhythm of the power cuts, waiting in the cold when that electricity was out.

In late autumn, BreakThru Films launched a campaign on a crowdfunding website to urgently raise funds to purchase a power generator that would restore the artists' ability to work.

[22] In September 2023, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film for North and Latin America, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

"[26] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[27] Writing for The Observer, Wendy Ide praised the film for "its grimly relentless approach to misogyny and sexual violence" and called it "a disconcertingly beautiful picture about the ugliness of humanity.

[29] With over 141,000 admissions The Peasants recorded the biggest opening weekend for a Polish film in 2023, dethroning Agnieszka Holland's Green Border.