On September 22, “” was released in cinemas. Agnieszka Holland’s famous production touches on the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. The work received a special award from the jury during the Venice Festival, and in Poland people who had not seen the painting began to boycott it even before the premiere. Polish right-wing politicians made scandalous comparisons of the production to Nazi propaganda, and their sympathizers gave it negative reviews on film websites and organized protests in front of Polish cinemas.
Mariusz Szczygieł reviewed “The Green Border”
Andrzej Duda was among the people who spoke on the “Green Border” issue. The president did not congratulate Agnieszka Holland on winning in Venice, instead joining the harmful narrative. “I am not surprised that the Border Guard officers who saw this film used the slogan ‘only pigs sit in the cinema’, known to us from the times of the Nazi occupation, when Nazi propaganda films were shown in our cinemas,” Duda said.
The latest work has already been viewed by Mariusz Szczygieł, one of the most popular Polish reportage authors. “I watched it. It’s a strong, beautiful and deeply human film. I now understand the PiS elites and fanatics. Because whoever watches ‘The Green Border’ will never vote for PiS again. I am convinced of that,” writes the author of “Gottland” on social media.
“It’s a film about the courage of Poles, especially Polish women”
The writer also referred to the words of Andrzej Duda, and also referred to the president’s previous statements, when he called the LGBTQ+ community an ideology. Mariusz Szczygieł came out in 2022 in his book “Fakty must dance”. “Mr. President’s calling me and thousands of Polish men and women a pig, and earlier an ideology, authorizes me to give him the nickname ‘clown’,” Szczygieł notes and gets to the point.
“I swear to you that the clown president and clowns like him – such as Kaczyński, Ziobro, Czarnek – are wrong. It is a film about humanity in its entire spectrum. It is a film about the courage of Poles, especially Polish women. With the Belarusian regime as the perpetrator of the tragedy and “The European Union as allowing tragedy – in the background” – says the Polish writer. “Agnieszka Holland shows and records how the authorities created a new region of our country. In Poland, during our lifetime, a zone of exclusion from being human was created,” she adds.
The author is not afraid of strong words. In the post, he tagged the official profile of the president and Law and Justice.
Source: Gazeta
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