Polish (genre) cinema has set clear trends in recent years. The Oscar for the film "Ida" shows this most clearly. In the genre sector, director Patryk Vega has particularly stood out in recent years with his shrill and provocative films, which do not shy away from violent sex and violence scenes.
This film is about a provincial policeman (Antoni Krolikowski) from an anti-corruption unit who, through chance circumstances, rises to become a brothel boss and then gradually to a mafia boss in the Subcarpathians. The film is staged like a shrill satire that often changes key. Comedic interludes alternate with hearty sex and hard action scenes. What is remarkable, for example, is how the corrupt police officer deals with one of his toughest opponents (Piotr Stramowski, known from "Polizeiruf 110: Das Beste für mein Kind / The best for my child"), who is certainly not an orphan. Violent and blatant!
The film shows a thoroughly corrupt and unrestrained society, with provocative images! If only German genre cinema were as courageous and uncompromising!
Katarzyna Warnke, Piotr Stramowski's wife in real life, is there as a busy prosecutor.
This film certainly won't be to everyone's taste, but it gives an insight into why Polish cinema is so exciting these days. This film goes where it hurts. And even in its partial failure, it is still extremely interesting.
