

Young bohemians drink wine, quote poetry, and pretend the world isn't about to end. Spoiler: it does.
Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.
Cinematography
Kraków's gaslit streets shot like a memory fading
Acting
Wojciech Pszoniak's magnetic, self-destructive poet
Costume
Bohemian dishevelment that cost actual money

Director
Andrzej Kotkowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during martial law in Poland, the Young Poland nostalgia carried deliberate political weight—longing for freedom through historical proxy.
The 'Spokojne lata' (Calm Years) title is bitterly ironic—every character's 1913 optimism reads as tragedy to Polish audiences who know what's coming in 1914, then 1939.
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