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“The merriest bunkhouse in the camp”:
Polish comedies
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OUR FOLKSOUR FOLKS ( (SAMI SWOISAMI SWOI))
Comedy made in 1967. Director Sylwester Chęciński. Music by Wojciech Kilar.
First part of a trilogy, followed by We are Strong (Nie ma mocnych, 1974) and Love or Ditch (Kochaj albo rzuć, 1977).
Black and white; digital colour version , 2000.
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OUR FOLKSOUR FOLKS A story of two displaced
peasant families, the Pawlaks and the Karguls, brought from the East to the “Regained Territories”.
A family feud and a “Romeo and Juliet” plotline.
Slapstick comedy with underlining social satire.
Undying popularity due to witty dialogues.
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VABANKVABANK (I and II) (I and II) Directed by Juliusz
Machulski, 1981 and 1984. Music by Henryk Kużniak.
Starring: Jan Machulski.
Criminal comedy set in 1930s.
Focused on a genius safecracker/musician, Kwinto, and his revenge on a treacherous partner/sly banker; “noble robbers” restoring justice.
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SexmissionSexmission ((SeksmisjaSeksmisja))
Sexmission made in 1984, director Juliusz Machulski.
Starring: Jerzy Stuhr and Olgierd Łukaszewicz.
Voted by viewers as the best Polish comedy ever.
A sci-fi anti-utopia. Takes place in 1991 and in 2044.
Acute political satire.
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SexmissionSexmission An epigraph from
Sławomir Mrożek: “Tomorrow is today, only tomorrow” («Jutro to dziś — tyle, że jutro»).
A post-nuclear war society without men, a feminist totalitarian science-oriented world.
Human reproduction through parthenogenesis.
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SexmissionSexmission Two men survive due to
a hibernation experiment.
They are defrosted on March 8 (International Women’s Day), 53 years later.
Escape and start “the return to normality”: the first boy born on December 24.
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Sexmission: Sexmission: Political Political subtextsubtext
Oppressive society with military discipline;
Brainwashing;
Bugged rooms;
Falsification of history;
Distortion of reality;
Lies on TV;
Underground dissidents;
Suppression of sensuality and sexuality;
Hatred towards “the other,” an image of an enemy.