Sexmission

Cult science-fiction comedy. Considered the best comedy in the history of Polish cinema.

Two men (great performances by Jerzy Stuhr and Olgierd Łukaszewicz) participate in a scientific experiment – one for profit, the other for science. They are to be frozen for 3 years. But they awake half a century later, in a world where men are entirely extinct as the result of a war. As relics of the past, they become extraordinary subjects for study, but their charm begins to remind women what they lost. When they find out they are to undergo a sex-change operation they run away and discover the reality of life beyond the “base”. They sabotage the “breeding facility” and new boys are born.

Juliusz Machulski’s (“Vabank”, 1981) cult comedy, still a blockbuster of Polish cinema is not only a pastiche of the sci-fi genre but also a metaphor for a totalitarian regime, a satire on the reality of martial law in Poland. Over 11 million viewers places the film amongst the top ten most popular Polish movies.

Film screening presented by Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn and Eesti Nägemistervisekeskus.