6.063 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestŚwiętobór commences Operation Northern Lion. Anatol and the Light Brigade face betrayals. Kajetan learns an emotional secret -- and goes on the run.
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
Production
Painstakingly built 1980s Poland that never was—every neon sign hurts.
Writing
Alt-history that actually interrogates its premise, not just exploits it.
Acting
Więckiewicz's exhausted eyes carry decades of complicit silence.
Creators
Maciej Musiał, Joshua Long
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Netflix's first Polish original, greenlit partly to capture the booming Eastern European market—ironically, about a Poland that rejects Western capitalism entirely.
Creator Maciej Musiał cast himself as Kajetan after struggling to find an actor who could sell 'idealistic law student who gradually realizes his education is propaganda.'
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