Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their married life. He is an intelligent constantly humiliated by the state, he also makes his own moonshine after work and silently envies his prosperous brother in law. She is the leader of the "Solidarity" union at work, with the need for freedom and a dream to get out of Poland. The real adventure for the family starts when they manage to get their dream orange Fiat 126p. Ela and Tadek discover their appetite for trading and trips abroad, and the growing Marta will fall in love for the first time.
Acting
Kinga Preis carries the weight of a nation's quiet rage.
Production
Period-perfect details that smell like 1980s Poland.
Writing
Grandma's insurgency stories as twisted bedtime lore.
Director
Kinga Dębska
Kinga Preis
Elżbieta Makowska
Adam Woronowicz
Tadeusz Makowski
Ewa Wiśniewska
Grandma
Milena Lisiecka
Grażyna
Przemysław Bluszcz
Mietek
Katarzyna Kwiatkowska
Lucyna
Rafał Rutkowski
Zenek
Dorota Landowska
Waitress Halina
Barbara Dziekan
Human resource manager
Agnieszka Przepiórska
Saleswoman in the furniture store
Marcin Bosak
PE teacher
Klara Bielawka
Customs officer (I)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Fiat 126p wasn't just a car—it was a decade-long waitlist symbol of communist failure and black-market hustle. Spoiler: most Poles have complicated feelings.
Director Kinga Dębska based Marta's grandmother on her own, who really did tell insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. The moonshine details? Also suspiciously specific.
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