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Polish World War II Drama Series ‘The Bay Of Spies’ Evokes Film Noir’s Moral Ambiguity As Battle For Poland’s Pubcaster Rages — Global Breakouts
'The Bay of Spies', a Polish TV drama from Michal Rogalski, is Deadline's Global Breakout this week.
Just before Christmas, Donald Tusk’s new pro-European coalition government fired the bosses of its state broadcaster, TVP, and shut its news channels, claiming the previous ruling party, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) group, had used it as a propaganda network. He says that because camera technology is so good in television production in the modern era, the challenge for filmmakers to is to imprint “your own handwriting” on a show with ambitions as high as The Bay of Spies, adding: “We are not Fellini but still we have to press our personality.” That notion seems to be impressing on local audiences. Rogalski says there is a “war going on” for the soul of the state broadcaster, with the new government and the media regulator — which was created by the PiS in 2015 with the power to sack managements and put in sympathetic journalists — at political loggerheads.
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