NASZOSC - TYLKO DLA NIENORMALNYCH (NASZOSC - ONLY FOR THE ABNORMAL)
Recommended. Early 1990s, system transformation times in Poland. Naszość was a political activism group adopting creative, humorous, performative methods which gained them public support. E.g. "jeleń w garniturze jest mniej awanturujący się" ("a deer in a suit is less rowdy") was a paraphrase of a famous line from a Polish comedy. The documentary astonishes you when it delves into their 1999 protest against the Russian invasion of Chechnya, as you hear them talk about Ramzan Kadyrov in whose house cellars people were tortured and compare Putin to Stalin - now, during the invasion of Ukraine, these reminders of the events hit you even stronger. Then there's the brilliant list of how judges are distinguished from prostitutes. Some memories are hilarious like when they were demanding the release of their friend from a police station but it turned out he had been released about 15 minutes before they stormed the building. It shows how their initially anti-communist agenda subsequently turned into rightist opposition to the modern-day left as now some of them run "Gazeta Polska" and similar right-wing media.
Reviewed from the distributor's screener, cinematic reception might differ.
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