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Gruby

1973 · 1 season

A earnest, slow-burning coming-of-age story set against a tense post-war backdrop, blending schoolyard adventures with the weight of displacement and lingering conflict.

Created by
Wojciech Fiwek
Genres
Action & adventure
Starring
Paweł Baldy, Andrzej Skupień, Stanisław Kozyrski
Overview
Seventh-grade students are just starting their studies in a newly opened school in a small town in the Recovered Territories, right after the end of the war. The difficult process of assimilation of the settlers who came to Lower Silesia in 1946, the echoes of the war: the subversive actions of Werwolf, the actions of the looters - constitute the background for the adventures taking place in the foreground.

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Created by
Wojciech Fiwek
Genres
Action & adventure
Starring
Paweł Baldy, Andrzej Skupień, Stanisław Kozyrski
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • war
  • survival
  • friendship
Places
  • small town
  • school
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
action & adventure
Created by
Wojciech Fiwek
Written by
Aleksander Minkowski, Wojciech Fiwek
Starring
Paweł Baldy, Andrzej Skupień, Stanisław Kozyrski, Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak, Stefan Kąkol, Halina Dobrucka, Danuta Szumowicz, Cezary Marcinkowski
Music
Piotr Marczewski
Cinematography
Janusz Czecz
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 30 min each
Country
Poland
Languages
Polish

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