The Devil Was in the Details: Pani Twardowska by Adam Mickiewicz – Animation #language & literature Video embed The Devil Was in the Details: Pani Twardowska by Adam Mickiewicz This wacky and whimsical story is an abridged and bowdlerised version of Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz’s poem Pani Twardowska – part of his ground-breaking book of Romantic poems from 1822, Ballads and Romances. Pani Twardowska is the second of three animations set in ‘the amazing land of Quarks, Elephants and Pierogi’. All three videos show the Polish language from the perspective of its characteristic phenomena (Polish onomatopoeia taking centre-stage in this second animation) and through the prism of the works of the most outstanding authors of Polish literature. Learn more about Pani Twardowska, her husband & Adam Mickiewicz’s take on humour! More about Adam Mickiewicz: Translating Mickiewicz: Poland's International Man Of MysteryMickiewicz Unravelled: A Little-Known Fact About Poland’s Best-Known BardWho Were Poland’s ‘Wieszcze Narodowi’? And Why Do They Remain Important Today? Buy our book! Concept: Mikołaj GlińskiScreenplay: Berenika Steinberg & Janek TwardowskiEditor & narration: Adam ŻuławskiIllustrations & art direction: Magda BurdzyńskaAnimation: Łukasz Dudasz / Grupa AutografSound effects: Katarzyna WalczakSound editor: Wojciech OleksiakTechnical support: Alicja ZapalskaIdea & production: Sylwia JablońskaProduced by Culture.pl / Adam Mickiewicz Institute adam mickiewicz ballads and romances polish romanticism polish romantic literature polish romantic poets