Any good Polish films to watch?

I'll have a go in a while when I'm back.

Not Polish but I just watched "Julia" about Julia Child. Brilliant, amazing and every superlative.

And I'd watched both series before realising that the lead actor was Raquel from Coronation Street and Happy Valley. A sign of a good actor.

Thanks for the tip!

It was already discussed here. I enjoyed it a lot.

hop hop hop hop!

Fun fact - the director of photography in "1670" is... Swedish! :O Tfu! Potwarz! ;D

Info provided by the Swedish embassy in Poland lol:

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:D

Kania, did you watch it?? Hop, hop, hop! ;D

Is it a film or a tv thing?

What's special about it?

netflix series....


It's very funny.

OF course some people (who must have been given pickles as babies) were complaining about the historical accuracy but it's as much about modern Poland than anything that happened in the past.

That happens.

There were grumbles about Bridgerton because of rock music in a Regency costume drama and about one set in early. C19 Derbyshire with a racially mixed cast. And both are good. In the Derbyshire one, the best thing was that the very poor people spoke like council estate chavs of today; it really did work,

A historical drama, comedy whatever isn't a Crimewatch reconstruction. I'll look out for 1670.

Imagine what filming it must've been like lol:




That's one of the things that makes it so funny and relatable.

Best Polish film in history - "Pigs 2: The Last Blood". In Polish, it's called "Psy 2. Ostatnia krew".

It features the Polish Jean-Claude Van Damme - Bogusław Linda.

In this film, Linda's character, Franz, fights against the odds to stop a train full of weapons from arriving in Sarajevo.

So successful was Pigs 2, that in 2020 they made a Pigs 3.

Highly recommend. 5 stars.

Do you know if there will be some more episodes?

@Lenka, I don't know - it depends on Netflix's decision:

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The dancing scenes though!: ❤️

If you liked psy 1 and 2, check out pitbull, set in the same era with rough as nails cops, made in almost a para-documentary style.

Now for something completely different....

I recently discovered this and have become mildly obsessed....

Zosia w szpitalu (1977) is aPRL mini-masterpiece.

Made by WFO (educational film studio) with the goal of reassuring children that going to/staying in the hospital isn't so scary after all.

First Zosia's parents introduce themselves then we follow Zosia as she's introduced to friendly hospital staff and other children and it ends with her asleep in her hospital bed while a friendly nurse tucks her in and goes to her night station.

What makes it stand out is just how.... modern it feels. Many compare it (in terms of framing and editing) to Wes Anderson.

The best part is a long tracking shot from Zosia's point of view across several examination rooms showing fragments of different family dramas and the last one with her parents.

I showed it to a friend who remembers the PRL and who works in medical administration and he said something like the film is very much needed now.

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It certainly sounds like a great work of fiction - do you remember a discussion on this forum years ago where a woman was horrified because the hospital wanted to stitch her child's eyelids shut overnight because the nurse wouldn't have time to administer eye drops?? The mother offered to stay with the child and do it herself but it was against regulations, not giving the drops I believe but the staying outside of official visiting hours!

I was in hospital in the early 90 as a kid. The staff was great (with the exception of the lead doctor) and the only concern was the visiting times ( very, VERY strict in those times)

The parent staying with a child I believe is a common practice for quite a while now ..

I suspect things had really picked up by then. I was in for several spells as a kid in the early/mid 70s and most of the staff (with a couple of exceptions) were total cvnts. Like something from a Victorian workhouse.

An abiding memory of the kids' ward was that there were high shelves around the walls with all sorts of fancy toys provided by local charities, rotary clubs etc and they were just for decoration, kept out of the kids' reach.

The main doctor was not great e.g. denied me my usual comforter ( a bottle with tea) saying I was too big for that (true but I think sudden separation from your family, illness and hospital ordeal are not the best moments to change that) and some other things but I managed to get it off the nurses.

I remember two things:
- being on a cold high table and having my arm put in a metal frame (for IV).
- a member of staff doing inhalations to kids and me looking from around the corner with other kids, the nurse calling my name and come on, you are next and me running away laughing.

Indeed. I'd hope they're getting better about things like that now.


Some (but not all) of the nurses were the worst when I was in. The doctors (I don't have any bad memories of them anyway) seemed OK.

It's never easy for kids in hospital and they should really try to make it less bad. Maybe I'm an optimist however I suspect things only get better.

Hubal is the war movie about the "Mad Major" Hubal Dobrzański who didn`t surrender after the fall of Poland in 1939 but continued fight against Germans with his cavarly unit until 1940. He was the first partisan of WW2.

Trailer with subs:

I watched that TV series in late 1970s but without pleasure - only because there was nothing better on communist TV at the time.
The film is set in late 19th century Poland under foreign occupation. The main female protagonist loves certain man but marries another, a 15 years older guy whom she considers vulgar and basic. But she still tries to be a wife and mother. Their first child dies at 4. The next son is a spoilt troublemaker They are small landowners who have to strive to make both ends meet. One day they lose their property due to debts. The man dies and the widow leaves their home coz WW1 has just started.
She can never forget the moment when her first lover jumped into a lake to collect beautiful water flowers for her.

I considered this movie and the book which I had to read for Polish class in high school extremely depressing. I hated the idea that I could spend my life like those people.

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