A Polish nobleman moves into a ruined castle and the ghost is the least of his problems.
Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).
Writing
Rzewuski's 19th-century tale sharpened into biting satire.
Acting
Turek's Pogorzelski: aristocratic panic at its finest.
Director
Janusz Majewski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Opowieści niezwykłe, a Polish TV series adapting classic weird fiction when communist television rarely touched pre-war literary irony.
Majewski parodies Hammer Horror gothic tropes that were smuggled into Polish culture via underground Western film circulation—this ghost wears its influences like a borrowed cloak.
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