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Pigs

Movie
Audience Score
71
Pigs
NR 1 hr 44 minActionPsy Collection PosterPart of Psy Collection
In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
StarringBogusław LindaMarek KondratCezary Pazura
DirectorWładysław Pasikowski

Movie Details

Original Language:Polish
Production Companies:Zebra Film Studio
Pigs on the Web:Official Website

Psy Collection

What is 'Pigs' about? 'About a dog's world, about the fact that freedom also engenders filth and stupidity while destroying ideals. Everything has been debased, sullied in mud, thrown into the cesspool,' wrote a reviewer. Such extreme critical reactions were elicited by the film's subject matter and its portrayal of the world as fundamentally castrated of positives and saturated with cynicism, moral dirt and cruelty. A world that is simultaneously hardly abstract, and in fact present in the here and now (i.e. in Poland in 1989), one that is additionally portrayed in an iconoclastic and provocative manner, derisive of all things sacred, be they related to nation or religion.