Polish television series
Being Forty (Polish: Czterdziestolatek, alt. spelling: 40-latek, lit.: The Forty-Year-Old) is a Polish television comedy series originally broadcast in Poland between 1975 and 1978. The initial series enjoyed so much popularity that it was continued and led to the release of a feature film I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old's Love Affair and a New Year's Eve television program in 1975.
The series was written by Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz and was broadcast on Telewizja Polska. In total, 21 episodes were produced.[1]
The series followed the fate of a Warsaw family and explored topics related to midlife crisis, such as extra-marital affairs, attempts to quit smoking, obsession with hair loss, efforts to maintain physical fitness, pride in achievements and professional life, the desire to seek self-fulfillment through social activities, etc.
20 years later the series was remade in the mid-1990s with a cast that included Joanna Kurowska, Wojciech Mann and Wojciech Malajkat.
Episodes
- The toast, or closer than further (Toast czyli bliżej niż dalej) 1974
- Struggle with addiction, or maze (Walka z nałogiem czyli labirynt)
- Come by whenever you'd like, or dulled stimuli (Wpadnij kiedy zechcesz czyli bodźce stępione)
- The portrait, or how to be loved (Portret czyli jak być kochanym)
- Physical fitness, or the fight against the birth certificate (Kondycja fizyczna czyli walka z metryką)
- Flora's hair, or the maze (Włosy Flory czyli labirynt)
- Judym or a social action (Judym czyli czyn społeczny)
- Opening of the route, or free time (Otwarcie trasy czyli czas wolny) 1975
- Family, or strangers at home (Rodzina czyli obcy w domu) 1975
- Postcard from Spitsbergen, or enchantment (Pocztówka ze Spitzbergenu czyli oczarowanie) 1975
- Somebody else's misery, or defense witness (Cudze nieszczęście czyli świadek obrony) 1975
- New deputy, or the meteor (Nowy zastępca czyli meteor) 1975
- The scapegoat, or the rotation (Kozioł ofiarny czyli rotacja) 1975
- Małkiewicz case or kamikaze (Sprawa Małkiewicza czyli kamikadze) 1976
- Expensive gift or revisit (Kosztowny drobiazg czyli rewizyta) 1976
- Where have you been or Shakespeare (Gdzie byłaś czyli Szekspir) 1976
- A cunning beast, or the cristal (Cwana bestia czyli kryształ) 1977
- War game or on the billet (Gra wojenna czyli na kwaterze) 1977
- Away from people, or something of your own (Z dala od ludzi czyli coś swojego)
- In self-defense, or the hunt (W obronie własnej czyli polowanie)
- Shadow-line, or the first serious warning (Smuga cienia czyli pierwsze poważne ostrzeżenie) 1977
Cast
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