Of course, no one had seen the film until it was shown in Venice, but it didn’t matter at all that no one in Poland had commented on it or thrown dirt on it for some time. Since it was known that director Agnieszka Holland is making a film about the suffering of refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border, she was hit by a barrage of hateful attacks. And after the trailer came out, they got even stronger. Bad comments came not only from blinded anonymous or organized groups, but also from members of the government or even the Constitutional Court.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General in one person Zbigniew Ziobro wrote on Twitter: “During the Third Reich, the Germans made propaganda films showing Poles as bandits and murderers. Today they have Agnieszka Holland for that.”
And the judge of the Constitutional Court, Krystyna Pawłowicz, who, given her position, should weigh every word three times, but was put there by Jarosław Kaczyński, writes on Twitter about the film as a “shameful product,” which she says “gives false arguments to the enemies of Poland.” According to her, the director “excluded herself from the group of decent people a long time ago” and is said to be “sick of hatred for Poland”.
Other politicians and far-right publicists spoke up with aggressive, insulting expressions that it was about
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