In Heaven as Is on Earth

^director Jacek Bromski
^screenplay Zofia Miller (real name: Tadeusz Chmielewski)
^{director of photography} Ryszard Lenczewski
^music Henri Seroka
^with Irina Łaczina, Jan Wieczorkowski, Krzysztof Dzierma, Andrzej Zaborski
^awards
 Audience Award, Golden Teeth at Polish Film Festival in Chicago, 1998
 Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Sound (Katarzyna Dzida), Best Supporting Actor (Andrzej Zaborski), prize rewarded by the president of Gdynia for Best Comedy, Golden Claque, award of Radio Gdańsk for the film with the longest applause and Video Studio Gdańsk award for Irina Łaczina at the 23rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1998
 Bronze Grape at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 1998
 Grand Prix, Golden Jańcio (awarded by the audience) and Journalists Award at the Słupca Review of Films ‘Provinciality’, 1999
 Tarnowska Film Award, Special Prize, Silver Statue of Leliwita – team prize for actors from Białostocki Puppet Theatre, 1999
 Bronze Grenade at the Comedy Film Festival in Lubomierz, 1998
 Silver Sickle, Second Prize in the Best Comedy of Decade Competition at the Comedy Film Festival in Lubomierz, 2006

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

Georgian: Everybody understood? Pay, everyone pays now or else Georgian lights up a match and everything goes to hell. You pay, you’ll be under our protection. Marusia: Really? Thanks a lot, I can defend myself on my own. Twenty dollars, no way, it’s my monthly wages. Georgian: Are you paying? Ah., oh. Give me the money! Prokop: Comrades, that’s not the way, Leave her alone. Bandit: We’re no comrades – we are gentlemen.

ADAM HOROSZCZAK, ‘POLSKA ZBROJNA’, 1998, NO. 40

The source of warm humour here is an analysis of the relations and patterns of behaviour among the eastern borderland community (namely: homeliness, authenticity and humour with delicate undertones of satire). (…) Warming the heart and amusing is the naturalness of a group of provincial actors Bromski discovered at the Białystok Puppet Theatre. ‘In Heaven as Is On Earth’ offers true fun and enjoyment. Is it possible that we are witnessing the birth of a new genre: the sentimental national borderlands comedy?