19. Południk

19. Południk

2003 · 75 min · Comedy, TV Movie

The conspiracy story takes place in Poland, at the beginning of the 21st century. in 2003, Poles decide in a referendum not to join the EU, and in 2007 Bartlomiej Czop, a demagogue and primitive, devoid of education and personal culture, is elected president of Poland. He begins his tenure in office by brutally ejecting ex-president Kazimierz Czechmeszynski from the Belvedere when the latter wants to hand over the insignia of power to him. He then insults the Russian and German ambassadors. He also puts his crime-fighting program into practice, liquidating several hundred convicted criminals on high sentences in a faked accident at a military training ground.

Directed by Juliusz Machulski

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Andrzej Grabowski Prezydent Bartosz Czop
Jan Frycz Premier Franciszek Ciumak
Sławomir Orzechowski szef kancelarii Błażej Pajda
Cezary Kosiński sekretarz prezydenta Szymon Napierzak
Halina Łabonarska Maria
Jan Machulski ex-prezydent Czechmeszyński
Rafał Królikowski Patryk
Adam Ferency Bogdan Dziadul/Stefan Dziadul
Joanna Brodzik Karolina
Jan Englert ambasador Niemiec
Jerzy Stuhr ambasador Rosji
Małgorzata Zajączkowska ambasador USA

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