Back Then

Release Date: 2021-08-27

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.7 / 10

Cast

Kinga Preis

as Elżbieta Makowska

Adam Woronowicz

as Tadeusz Makowski

Ewa Wiśniewska

as Grandma

Barbara Papis

as Marta Makowska

Alicja Warchocka

as Kasia Makowska

Crew

Kinga Dębska - Director
Alina Trybiło-Falana - Casting Director
Danuta Malipan - Script
Andrzej Wojciechowski - Director of Photography
Wojciech Żogała - Production Design

Reviews

wlodi:

An entertaining and easy to watch light comedy showing the family life and many quirks of living in the late communist Poland. It's relies heavily on nostalgia as a "slice of life" film, but thankfull...