Film Screening • Back Then (Poland, 2021)

Marta is a romantic and a victim of fate. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and their grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, their parents Tadek and Elzbieta live their married lives. He is an intellectual, constantly humiliated by the system, who silently envies his prosperous brother-in-law. She is the president of the company’s “Solidarity” with the need for freedom and a dream to finally break out of Poland. However, the real emotions for the whole family start when their dream car, an orange Fiat 126 appears under the apartment block. This will be an unexpected catapult to the big world: the family will go to Lake Balaton in a car with luggage on the roof. Ela and Tadek will discover a vocation to trade and travel abroad, and Marta will fall in love again.

In Polish with English subtitles.

Director: Kinga Dębska · Year 2021 · Comedy

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Presented by the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies in partnership with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.