Netflix has unveiled 9 new films and sequence from Poland together with the directorial debut of Excessive Water author Kasper Bajon and a thriller from the group behind Forgotten Love.
Because the streamer continues to unveil worldwide originals by the bucket load, Undertaking UFO leads the Poland slate, a mini-series helmed by Bajon that can transport followers of tales impressed by actual occasions to the Nineteen Eighties in an effort to examine the alleged UFO touchdown in a distant countryside village.
Bajon wrote the favored Excessive Water sequence, one of many greatest to come back from Netflix Poland, concerning the 1997 Central European flood and the way it was managed by the authorities of the Polish metropolis of Wrocław.
In the meantime, Michał Gazda (director) and Magdalena Szwedkowicz (producer), the group behind final 12 months’s Netflix Poland film Forgotten Love, are re-teaming on a film following a retired policeman making an attempt to carry to justice to these behind a ruthless financial institution theft case, titled Napad.
Boxer, directed by Mitja Okorn and produced by Maciej Kawulski, most just lately recognized for his work on How I Fell in Love with a Gangster, is ready in communist Poland and follows the journey of the principle character Jędrek each within the boxing ring and on his approach to England, the place he hopes to make his desires come true.
Elsewhere, Go Forward, Brother from author Kacper Wysocki, answerable for the script of Suggestions, a 2023 sequence, will take an insider’s look into the hunt by a former elite police unit officer to resolve his monetary worries.
Rounding out the slate, Netflix has additionally commissioned Klara Kochańska-Bajon to co-direct a sequence titled Moms of Penguins, Jan Peszek and Maciej Stuhr will star in a film a couple of household’s battle over their eccentric uncle’s fortune and Maja Ostaszewska (Broad Peak) will star reverse Jakub Gierszał, who can be making his Netflix debut, in Colours of Evil: Purple, a film adaptation of a well-liked novel. Magdalena Popławska (Glitter) will return to Netflix screens in Divorce, the place a previously married couple decides to have their church marriage ceremony annulled, not with out obstacles on their manner, and Netflix has greenlit a second season of comedy sequence Inexperienced Glove Gang.
“We’re excited to work once more with a spread of extraordinarily gifted native creators – who carry to Netflix their various tales, appreciated by viewers in Poland for his or her high quality and distinctive characters,” stated Michael Azzolino, Netflix’s VP of Content material for Central and Jap Europe, Benelux and Turkey.
“Followers will likely be excited to see the creators of such Netflix hits as Excessive Water, Forgotten Love or How I Fell in Love with a Gangster returning to Netflix to check their distinctive expertise in new genres or artistic challenges that they haven’t had the chance to discover earlier than. We even have just a few surprises from rising Polish skills that can give audiences an opportunity to expertise contemporary views on native tales.”
Netflix has unveiled dozens of latest worldwide exhibits and flicks for the reason that flip of the 12 months, defying streaming rivals, who’ve in the principle rowed again from worldwide. Final week, UK boss Anne Mensah stated she won’t change commissioning course regardless of a shift of focus to revenue over subs numbers.
Netflix opened a CEE workplace in Warsaw a few years in the past, though CEE originals chief Anna Nagler quietly exited just a few months again.