''Botoks'' is a 2017 Polish

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directed by Patryk Vega. It stars Olga Bołądź,

Agnieszka Dygant Agnieszka Urszula Dygant (born 27 March 1973) is a Polish actress. She is a two-time Telekamery, Telekamery Award winner for Best Actress. Biography She studied at the LVI Liceum Ogólnokształcące named after Leon Kruczkowski in Warsaw. In h ...

, Katarzyna Warnke and Marieta Żukowska. It was shot in

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and

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. The title literally means "

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" in Polish.

Cast

* Olga Bołądź as Daniela *

as Beata Winkler * Katarzyna Warnke as Magda * Marieta Żukowska as Patrycja Banach *

Janusz Chabior Janusz () is a masculine Polish given name. It is also the shortened form of January and Januarius. People *Janusz Akermann (born 1957), Polish painter *Janusz Bardach, Polish gulag survivor and physician * Janusz Bielański, Roman Catholic prie ...

as Ordynator oddziału * Sebastian Fabijański as Marek * Piotr Stramowski as Michał * Tomasz Oświeciński as Darek *

Grażyna Szapołowska Grażyna Szapołowska (; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress. Life and career She was born in Bydgoszcz. The father was of Latvian-Polish descent, and mother, Wanda, was Lithuanian-Polish descent. She has a sister, Lidi ...

* Wojciech Machnicki *Michał Kula * Jan Fabiańczyk * Katarzyna Czapla * Marek Krupiński * Krzysztof Gojdź

Reception

Box office

The film had the second best opening for a Polish film in 30 years (after Vega's previous film ''Pitbull: Dangerous women''), with 711,906 admissions in its opening weekend in Poland. It totaled 2.31 million admissions (with average admission cost at €4.2) in 2017, the second highest of the year in Poland after ''Letters to Santa 3''. In the United Kingdom, it was the third highest-grossing foreign-language film of 2017, as well as the most successful Polish film of all time in the UK, earning £1.06 million at the box office. Despite its

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success, the film got nine "

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References

External links

* *''Botoks'' on

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