The subject: Three Polish businessmen are starting a state-of-the-art factory in Gdansk (the factory is, in fact, a maquiladora of a Danish company taking advantage of low Polish wages). They are waylaid by the evil schemes of Janusz, a corrupt procurator who accuses them of various crimes, among them money laundering.
Villain Janusz is straight out of a superhero movie; he lives in a gloomy, Addams-style Gothic mansion, enjoys hunting and force feeds his hapless family the remains of his animal victims (huge stuffed beasts adorn the dark paneled walls of his house; he does the taxidermy job himself). His evilness is rooted in Communist oriented activism during his student days (there is a passing nod to the now fashionable meme Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism).
In contrast, the Businessmen Superheroes (especially Marek) do much macho posturing and swaggering and their pecadilloes (such as serial philandering) are dismissed with Nietzschean understanding. At the end of the movie they receive the highest award, a pat in the back from their Danish master, who invites them to work in Denmark, where "people aren't punished by their ideas or entrepreneurial spirit." This line, delivered in English, caused some problems in Poland, since it implies "In Poland, people are punished by their ideas or entrepreneurial spirit."
As for the film itself: good production values, uneven acting and dynamic direction; it has the look and feel of an American TV movie. The Polish title translates to "closed system" rather than "closed circuit."
Villain Janusz is straight out of a superhero movie; he lives in a gloomy, Addams-style Gothic mansion, enjoys hunting and force feeds his hapless family the remains of his animal victims (huge stuffed beasts adorn the dark paneled walls of his house; he does the taxidermy job himself). His evilness is rooted in Communist oriented activism during his student days (there is a passing nod to the now fashionable meme Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism).
In contrast, the Businessmen Superheroes (especially Marek) do much macho posturing and swaggering and their pecadilloes (such as serial philandering) are dismissed with Nietzschean understanding. At the end of the movie they receive the highest award, a pat in the back from their Danish master, who invites them to work in Denmark, where "people aren't punished by their ideas or entrepreneurial spirit." This line, delivered in English, caused some problems in Poland, since it implies "In Poland, people are punished by their ideas or entrepreneurial spirit."
As for the film itself: good production values, uneven acting and dynamic direction; it has the look and feel of an American TV movie. The Polish title translates to "closed system" rather than "closed circuit."