''Belfer'' is a

Polish television Telewizja Polska S.A. (; "Polish Television"; TVP), also known in English as the public Polish Television is a Polish state media corporation. It is the largest Polish television network, although viewership has been declining in the 2010s. Since ...

crime drama Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...

series starring

Maciej Stuhr Maciej Jerzy Stuhr (born 23 June 1975) is a Polish actor, comedian and occasional film director. Life and career In 1999, he majored in psychology from the Jagiellonian University before moving on to study acting at Kraków's National Academy ...

as a high school teacher investigating criminal cases. Broadcast in 2016, the first season was a rating success for

Canal + Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow und ...

as it broke their all-time record and won 2 awards, including Best TV Series at the

Polish Film Awards Polish Film Award, or Eagle ( pl, Polska Nagroda Filmowa, „Orzeł”) is a film awards ceremony given annually since 1999, with the first event held on 21 June, by the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA). Since 2003 they are given ...

. A second season premiered in October 2017.

Series 1

The series was directed by Łukasz Palkowski and based on a script by Jakub Żulczyk and Monika Powalisz. It was shot in

Chełmża Chełmża (german: Kulmsee, earlier ''Culmsee''), is a town in north-central Poland, in the Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is located at around . It is one of the historic centers of Chełmno Land. Geography The town Chełm� ...

Kwidzyn Kwidzyn (pronounced ; german: Marienwerder; Latin: ''Quedin''; Old Prussian: ''Kwēdina'') is a town in northern Poland on the Liwa River, with 38,553 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Kwidzyn County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Geogra ...

Chełmno Chełmno (; older en, Culm; formerly ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional impor ...

and other locations. ; Cast *

: Paweł Zawadzki *

Grzegorz Damięcki Grzegorz Damięcki (born 15 November 1967) is a Polish theatre, television, and film actor from Warsaw best known to international audiences for his role in the Netflix series '' The Woods''. Biography Early life Born in Warsaw, Grzegorz Damię ...

: Grzegorz Molenda *

Magdalena Cielecka Magdalena Cielecka (born 20 February 1972) is a Polish actress. Life and career Cielecka spent her childhood in the small town of Żarki-Letnisko. In 1995, she graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna in Kraków. Soon after, she jo ...

: Katarzyna Molenda * Robert Gonera : Bogdan Walewski *Paweł Królikowski: Sławomir Słota * Józef Pawłowski: Maciej Dąbrowa *Sebastian Fabijański: Adrian Kuś *Aleksandra Grabowska: Julia Molenda *Mateusz Więcławek: Jan Molenda *

Piotr Głowacki Piotr Głowacki (born 29 March 1980) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 2004. Awarded with the most prestigious prize for a young actor of his generation in 2014, Głowacki has since played in major Polish and internatio ...

: Rafał Papiński *Paulina Szostak: Ewelina Rozłucka *

Krzysztof Pieczyński Krzysztof Pieczyński (born 27 March 1957) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1979. Filmography References External links * 1957 births Living people Polish male film actors Polish male television actor ...

: Lesław Dobrzański * Łukasz Simlat: Daniel Poręba *

Katarzyna Dąbrowska Katarzyna Dąbrowska (born 14 March 1984) is a Polish actress and singer. She graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy. She won Countrywide French Song Contest. She scored 3rd place in XXVIII Actors Song Review in Wrocław ...

: Marta Mirska ; Plot Freshly arrived from Warsaw in the fictional small town of Dobrowice, a high school Polish teacher investigates the recent murder of one of the school's students. ; Reception The series was a rating success for Canal+ breaking its all-time best viewing figures, with an average audience rating of 345,000 and over 461,000 viewers watching the finale on 27 November 2016. It was awarded the Special Prize at Telekamera 2017 and Best TV Series at the 2017 Polish Film Awards. ; Home media release The first season was released on DVD on 17 March 2017.

Series 2

Series 2, consisting of 8 episodes, premiered on 22 October 2017.

References

External links

Official website
*{{IMDb title, 6281238, Belfer 2016 Polish television series debuts Polish crime television series Television shows set in Poland Canal+ original programming