Back Then
“All the flavors of childhood.”
Synopsis
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.
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Edited by Bartosz KarczynskiShot by Andrzej WojciechowskiScored by Michal NovinskiDesigned by Wojciech Zogala
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17 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Kinga Preis
as Elzbieta Makowska
Adam Woronowicz
as Tadeusz Makowski
Ewa Wisniewska
as Grandma
Barbara Papis
as Marta Makowska
Alicja Warchocka
as Kasia Makowska
Milena Lisiecka
as Grazyna
Przemyslaw Bluszcz
as Neighbor Mietek
Katarzyna Kwiatkowska
as Lucyna
Rafal Rutkowski
as Zenek
Dorota Landowska
as Waitress Halina
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1Producers
1Other crew
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