Ohjaus:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiKäsikirjoitus:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiKuvaus:
Pawel EdelmanSävellys:
Michal LorencNäyttelijät:
Boguslaw Linda, Marek Kondrat, Cezary Pazura, Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Zbigniew Bielski, Tomasz Dedek, Ryszard Fischbach (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Not long after the Fall of the Wall, a group of former Polish Stasi agents are integrated into the police force. Franz Maurer (whose intelligence career was aided by his marriage to a Politburo member’s daughter) loses three of his men in the line of duty while fighting organised crime. Soon it becomes clear that the brutal slayings could only have been carried out by his ex-colleagues – and whoever is pulling the strings seems to be above the law. Maurer’s vendetta against his corrupt and cynical social environment serves as an allegory of post-Communist conditions. Capturing the essence of the era, this iconoclastic and provocative mafia thriller became an audience favourite within the new cinema of “immoral unrest”. (goEast - Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films)
(lisää)Arvostelut (2)
Poland's French Connection, which excellently blends period local specificity (the revaluation of communist state security agents in the new state regime seamlessly with the expansion of foreign mafia structures in the weakened new state) with clear genre rules. Pigs was one of a number of films with which Polish cinema tried to counter the onslaught of Western flicks that was attracting the audience of the time more than the post-revolutionary aggrieved works. When we realize that it was made for the same motives as, for example, Nudity for Sale, we have to realize how completely retarded we Czechs are even compared to Poles.
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I got to watch the film for the first time today and I was amazed. I was greatly entertained for almost two hours. The story made sense and was based on the times that I still vividly remember. Had it not been for a few badly done special effects and weaker acting performances in certain supporting roles, it would have been worth five stars.
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