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Post by Jaga on May 31, 2020 8:29:08 GMT -7
Pieter told me yesterday that he watches this show. It is in Polish with English subtitles. It refers to Orwell 1984
1983 | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix
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Post by pieter on May 31, 2020 9:49:57 GMT -7
I am watching it with Dutch subtitles.
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Post by Jaga on Jun 4, 2020 21:36:23 GMT -7
Pieter, how good is it? How many parts did you watch?
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Post by pieter on Jun 5, 2020 14:37:05 GMT -7
Jaga,
First I want to be honest. As a non Slavic or half Slavic person who lives a West-Germanic Dutch life I do believe that I can't judge Polish or other Slav productions to the quality standard Slavic film critics judge their own language productions. I haven't got enough experience with watching Polish tv series and movies to be able to judge Polish productions. I can understand word for word and read word after word and speak Dutch, German and English and read Dutch, German and English literature and watched Dutch, German and English language cinema and could judge these productions. I can't judge if the dialogues have quality in the Polish linguistic sense. What I see is a George Orwell 1984 or The Matrix kind of scary world in which the fall of the communist Polish People's Republic never happened, and the Iron Curtain is still in place. For me Jaga as a foreign watcher of a Polish production it is an exciting tv series with the same tension and impact like for instance "The Bourne Identity (2002)" with Matt Damon and "Mission: Impossible ( 1996)" with Tom Cruise.
What I can say is that I read translated Polish, Czech, Russian and Hungarian literature and enjoyed Polish language, Czech language, Russian language and Hungarian language quality Art House cinema in Dutch Art House cinema's and on the Dutch and Belgian public tv in the original languages with Dutch subtitles. I loved movies from Andrei Tarkovsky, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Agnieszka Holland and Paweł Pawlikowski.
Back to Netflix's first Polish original series 1983. It is a good series, but tough, with a rough start with a torture scene of a *Służba Bezpieczeństwa kind of brutal interogator and an opposition figure. The series is set in 2003; a terrorist attack took place in Poland in 1983 which altered the course of history. The Iron Curtain is still in place and the Cold War did not end. Law student Kajetan (Maciej Musiał) and Milicja Obywatelska investigator Anatol (Robert Więckiewicz) uncover a conspiracy that could potentially start a revolution. Decades after this terrorist attack, a law student and a cop uncover a conspiracy that's kept Poland as a police state and the Iron Curtain standing.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_(Poland)
In this mirror universe, the Polish communist PZPR government, spent the decades between 1983 and 2003 cracking down on any rebellion that could lead to another terrorist incident. But not every secret stays hidden, as the show suggests that the truth about the bombings is as sinister as it is buried. The investigation in this twisted conspiracy is led by two unlikely allies: inspector Anatol Janów (played by Robert Więckiewicz), an aging police inspector who derailed his career after asking to many questions, and Kajetan Skowron (played by Maciej Musiał), a student whom parents perished in the bombings and who has spend most of his life as a ward and a symbol of the state. As their sleuthing progresses, rebellions foment in every corner of the repressive regime from the highest ranks of the military to as shadowy group of freedom fighters known as "The Light Brigade".
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jun 5, 2020 14:42:56 GMT -7
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