In Polish club cinemas, viewers will see a spot about border guards prepared by the Ministry of the Interior before the new film by director Agnieszka Hollandová. His deputy Blažej Pobožy announced this on Thursday. Holland’s film called Border tells about the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Although he won a prize at the Venice Film Festival, the national conservatives in power in Poland condemn him.
According to portal gazeta.pl deputy Poboża described the film, which he had not yet seen in its entirety, as “an ugly mockery that tarnishes the good reputation of the Polish border guard”. According to him, it harms Polish state institutions and Poles.
The Ministry of the Interior has therefore decided that a clip will be played before the film in club cinemas across Poland, which “shows the context of the hybrid war (Belarus against Poland), the course of the migration crisis and the solutions adopted by the authorities to ensure the safety of Poles and Poles”. God couldn’t tell how many movie theaters there were visitors to a thirty-second spot they will see from the government.
“Even before anyone saw the film, they already had an opinion about it. It’s injustice and censorship,” she responded Hollandová for the onet.pl portal about the intention to release a video defending border guards.
According to the director, nothing like this should happen in any democratic country. “I didn’t expect them to go this far,” added one of the world’s most famous Polish artists, who has been criticizing the non-negotiable attitude of the local government towards refugees for a long time.
In this context, the Polish media are speculating how the state can force club cinemas to broadcast the clip. It is possible that the Polish Institute of Film Art may refuse to financially support the Association of Club Cinemas. The representatives of commercial chain networks, including multiplexes, have already made it clear that they will not show the spot, adds gazeta.pl.
Czechs participated in the production of the film Hranice, in addition to Czech Television, it was co-produced by Šárka Cimbalová from Marlene Film Production, edited by Pavel Hrdlička, and played an episodic role by Milan Šteindler. It had its pre-premiere in Krakow this Thursday, Polish cinemas will officially start showing it on Friday. They will head to the Czech ones on October 19.
The more than two-hour black-and-white live drama takes place on the Polish-Belarusian border, from where refugees from crisis areas tried to reach the European Union in 2021. The Polish government accuses the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko of using these people as a weapon in a hybrid war against Poland and the European Union.
NGOs testified that Polish border guards sometimes pushed migrants back to the Belarusian side of the border or refused to let them apply for asylum. According to human rights activists, dozens of refugees lost their lives in the border zone.
In Poland, not long before the elections, the film drew sharp criticism from the ruling national conservatives, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro compared it to Nazi propaganda. Constitutional judge and former ruling party MP Krystyna Pawlowicz, in turn, accused Holland of her “stupid, false, irresponsible, disgusting pamphlet inciting Poles against their defenders”.
Trade unions representing border guards also spoke out against the film. These recalled the slogan of the Polish resistance from the Second World War “Only swine sit in the cinema”, which was intended to discourage Poles from visiting cinemas and watching Nazi propaganda film weeklies.
Most recently, Polish conservative President Andrzej Duda stated this Wednesday that he was not surprised that the border guards used this slogan in connection with the border. He admitted at the same time that he had not seen the film.
Duda is not the only president who does not like the picture. Already last week, former Czech President Václav Klaus vytknul to the organizers of the Venice festival that they appreciated Holland for the “politically correct film” Hranice. “Previously, the Venice festival gave prizes for incorrect films. Mrs. Holland is a master, if not a grandmaster, in choosing politically correct topics,” Klaus said, adding that he no longer goes to the cinema himself. “The movie has changed, and I’m not willing to put up with it,” he stated on his website.
Video: Trailer from the film Hranice
The film Hranice will be shown in Czech cinemas on October 19. | Video: Bioscop
2023-09-21 16:01:35
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