Pigs

^director Władysław Pasikowski
^screenplay Władysław Pasikowski
^{director of photography} Paweł Edelman
^music Michał Lorenc
^with Bogusław Linda, Marek Kondrat, Cezary Pazura, Janusz Gajos, Aleksandra Jaskółka
^awards
 awards for director and actor, Bogusław Linda at Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films, 1994
 awards for director, actor (Bogusław Linda), supporting actress (Aleksandra Jaskółka), music and editing (Zbigniew Niciński, Wanda Zeman) at the 17th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1992
 Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka) ‘Film’ magazine Readers Award, 1993

[PROLOGUE OF THE FILM]

Wentzel, chairman of Verification Commission: the Verification Commission examines the case of Lieutenant Franciszek Maurer, married, aged 37, one child. Law studies in Cracow, diploma with honours in 1978. The same year he is employed by the Department. In 1980 he marries Milena Kurzępa, a daughter of the then deputy minister of internal affairs. Rapid promotion in December 1980. 31 reprimands, 18 citations, including two moved by the minister of internal affairs of the Russian Federation. Disciplinary removal from the service countermanded on three occasions; details unknown. Mister Maurer, what did you do in the case of Captain Nowakowski who in 1980 tried to organise trade unions in the Department? Maurer: I shot his head off with a Mauser 7,08.

GRAŻYNA STACHÓWNA, WE, PIGS, HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER [IN:] HISTORY OF THE POLISH CINEMA, ED. T. LUBELSKI AND K. J. ZARĘBSKI [MY, PSY, MUSIMY TRZYMAĆ SIĘ RAZEM, [W:] HISTORIA KINA POLSKIEGO], WARSZAWA 2006

Bogusław Linda and Marek Kondrat created in ‘Pigs’ charismatic characters of 1990’s film heroes, by no means new to the cinema but absolutely original on Polish soil. (…) Pasikowski’s ‘Pigs’ launched a boom in the Polish cinema of the 1990’s in the genre of films featuring bandits, gangsters and police officers, for a specific type of stories and conventions, heroes, rules of conduct, use of language, the manner of describing Polish reality, creation of a new hierarchy of values and instilling in young viewers a novel, market-oriented ideology and morality. ‘Pigs’ became the best example of this boom.