Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek (
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: ''The Forty-Year-Old''); broadcast in English by
TVP Polonia
TVP Polonia (formerly known as TV Polonia) is the international channel of the Telewizja Polska (TVP). The channel is co-funded by the TVP and the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and broadcasts from the TVP headquarters in Warsaw.
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as ''Being Forty'' is a Polish television
comedy
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series originally broadcast in Poland between 1975-78. The initial series enjoyed so much popularity that it was continued and led to the release of a feature film ''I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old's Love Affair'' and a New Year's Eve television program in 1975.
The series was written by Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz and was broadcast on
Telewizja Polska
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.
Sinc ...
. In total, 21 episodes were produced.
The series followed the fate of a
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
family and explored topics related to
midlife crisis
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, such as extra-marital affairs, attempts to quit smoking, obsession with hair loss, efforts to maintain physical fitness, pride in achievements and professional life, the desire to seek self-fulfillment through social activities, etc.
20 years later the series was remade in the mid-1990s with a cast that included Joanna Kurowska, Wojciech Mann and Wojciech Malajkat.
Episodes
# The toast, or closer than further (Toast czyli bliżej niż dalej) 1974
# Struggle with addiction, or maze (Walka z nałogiem czyli labirynt)
# Come by whenever you'd like, or dulled stimuli (Wpadnij kiedy zechcesz czyli bodźce stępione)
# The portrait, or how to be loved (Portret czyli jak być kochanym)
# Physical fitness, or the fight against the birth certificate (Kondycja fizyczna czyli walka z metryką)
# Flora's hair, or the maze (Włosy Flory czyli labirynt)
# Judym or a social action (Judym czyli czyn społeczny)
# Opening of the route, or free time (Otwarcie trasy czyli czas wolny) 1975
# Family, or strangers at home (Rodzina czyli obcy w domu) 1975
# Postcard from Spitsbergen, or enchantment (Pocztówka ze Spitzbergenu czyli oczarowanie) 1975
# Somebody else's misery, or defense witness (Cudze nieszczęście czyli świadek obrony) 1975
# New deputy, or the meteor (Nowy zastępca czyli meteor) 1975
# The scapegoat, or the rotation (Kozioł ofiarny czyli rotacja) 1975
# Małkiewicz case or
kamikaze
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(Sprawa Małkiewicza czyli kamikadze) 1976
# Expensive gift or revisit (Kosztowny drobiazg czyli rewizyta) 1976
# Where have you been or
Shakespeare
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(Gdzie byłaś czyli Szekspir) 1976
# A cunning beast, or the cristal (Cwana bestia czyli kryształ) 1977
# War game or on the billet (Gra wojenna czyli na kwaterze) 1977
# Away from people, or something of your own (Z dala od ludzi czyli coś swojego)
# In self-defense, or the hunt (W obronie własnej czyli polowanie)
# Shadow-line, or the first serious warning (Smuga cienia czyli pierwsze poważne ostrzeżenie) 1977
Cast
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Andrzej Kopiczyński
Andrzej Kopiczyński (15 April 1934 – 13 October 2016) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television between 1958 and 2016.
Selected filmography
* ''Copernicus'' (1973)
* ''Czterdziestolatek'' (1974-1977)
* '' Korc ...
as Stefan Karwowski, ''Czterdziestolatek''
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Anna Seniuk
Anna Seniuk (born 17 November 1942, in Stanisławów) is a Polish actress.
After World War II, together with other Poles from Stanisławów, she was forced by the Soviet government to leave her hometown, settling in the town of Zator, near Ośw ...
as Magda Karwowska, wife of Stefan Karwowski
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Irena Kwiatkowska
Irena Kwiatkowska (17 September 19123 March 2011) was a popular Polish actress, known in Poland for her many cabaret roles and monologues, as well as appearances in (mostly comedy) movies and television shows.
Life
Kwiatkowska graduated from th ...
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Roman Kłosowski
Roman Kłosowski (14 February 1929 – 11 June 2018) was a Polish character actor and stage director.
Biography
He was born on February 14, 1929, in Biała Podlaska. Graduate of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art's Facu ...
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Janusz Kłosiński
Janusz Kłosiński (19 November 1920 – 8 November 2017) was a Polish film and theatre actor.
Biography
In 1948 he graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, which was located in his hometown of Łód ...
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Leonard Pietraszak
Leonard Pietraszak (6 November 1936 – 1 February 2023) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1957.
Life and career
Pietraszak was best known for playing Gustaw Kramer in popular comedy '' Vabank'' an ...
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Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...
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Halina Kossobudzka
Halina Kossobudzka (29 August 1920 – 26 July 1994) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than twenty films and television shows between 1961 and 1987.
Selected filmography
* ''Panienka z okienka
''Panienka z okienka'' is a 1964 Po ...
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Władysław Hańcza
Władysław Hańcza (1905–1977) was a Polish actor and theatre director. During World War II he joined an underground theater. After the war he was a lecturer at the State Theatre Academy in Warsaw.
Selected filmography
* '' Popioły'' (1965)
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Wojciech Pokora
Wojciech Wacław Pokora (2 October 1934 – 4 February 2018) was a Polish actor. He has made over 40 appearances in film and television. He starred in the 1986–1987 television series ''Zmiennicy''.
Selected filmography
* Bad Luck (1960)
* H ...
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Katarzyna Łaniewska
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Mieczysław Waśkowski
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Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Zdzisław Maklakiewicz (9 July 1927 in Warsaw – 9 October 1977) was a Polish actor. He was the nephew of composers Jan and Tadeusz Maklakiewicz.
Biography
During World War II, Maklakiewicz served in the Home Army. He took part in the Warsa ...
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Bohdan Ejmont
Bohdan Ejmont (18 January 1928 – 28 February 2010) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1950 and 2002.
Selected filmography
* ''Shadow'' (1956)
* '' Three Steps on Earth'' (1965)
* ''Westerpla ...
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Ryszard Pietruski
Ryszard Pietruski (born 7 October 1922 in Wyszecino near Wejherowo, died 14 September 1996 in Warsaw) was a Polish theatre and film actor.
Biography
He spent his childhood and early days in Lviv. He was a student of the III State High School ...
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Stefan Friedmann
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Stanisław Tym
Stanisław Tym (born 17 July 1937 in Małkinia Górna, Małkinia) is a Poland, Polish, actor, comedian, journalist and satirist, as well as a film and theatre director and writer.
He coproduced and starred in many films of Stanisław Bareja, ...
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Wacław Kowalski
Wacław Kowalski (2 May 1916 – 27 October 1990) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1947 to 1983.
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References
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1990 deaths
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Jarosław Skulski
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Leon Niemczyk
Leon Stanisław Niemczyk (15 December 1923 – 29 November 2006) was a Polish actor.
Niemczyk developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1960s, known for serious dramas, including historical dramas and war films. He appeared in over ...
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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 ...
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Alina Janowska
Alina Janowska (16 April 1923 – 13 November 2017) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 35 films and television shows between 1946 and 2017.
Biography
Janowska was born in 1923 in Warsaw into a wealthy family. She was arrested ...
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Bożena Dykiel
Bożena Dykiel () (born 26 August 1948) is a Polish theater and film actress.
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1948 births
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20th-centu ...
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Edward Dziewoński
Edward Dziewoński (16 December 1916 in Moscow, Russian Empire – 17 August 2002 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish stage and film actor, and theatre director.
He studied acting at Państwowy Instytut Sztuki Teatralnej and debuted at the Sy ...
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Piotr Fronczewski
Piotr Fronczewski (born 8 June 1946 in Łódź, Poland), is a Polish actor and a cabaret and theatre singer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most popular actors of his generation.
Life and career
He was born to a Polish mother, Bogna ...
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Tadeusz Pluciński
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Lech Ordon
Lech Ordon (24 November 1928, Poznań – 21 October 2017, Warsaw) was a Polish actor.
In 1948, he graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, at the time located in Łódź. He was known for his roles i ...
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Wojciech Pszoniak
Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor.
Biography and career
Pszoniak was born in Lwów, Nazi occupied Poland, now in Ukraine. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 19 ...
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Jan Pietrzak
Jan Pietrzak (pronounced ; born 26 April 1937) is a Polish satirist, singer-songwriter, stage and film actor, and columnist for ''Tygodnik Solidarność'' (Solidarity Weekly).
Career
Pietrzak co-founded in Warsaw, with Jonasz Kofta, the student ...
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Krystyna Feldman
Krystyna Zofia Feldman (1 March 1916 – 24 January 2007) was a Polish actress.
Life and career
Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Catholic mother, Katarzyna Sawicka, an opera singer and a Jewish father, Ferdynand Feldm ...
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Jerzy Turek
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Joanna Szczepkowska
Joanna Szczepkowska (Polish pronunciation: ; born 1 May 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress and writer. She appeared in more than thirty films since 1975.
Life and career
She made her debut on televion in 1975 by appearing in episode 1 of ...
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Wiesław Gołas
Wiesław Ryszard Gołas (Polish: vʲε.swav 'gɔ.was 9 October 1930 – 9 September 2021) was a Polish actor and Armia Krajowa soldier. He was cast in the role of Tomasz Czereśniak in ''Czterej pancerni i pies'' (Polish: ''Four tank men a ...
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Jan Kobuszewski
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Andrzej Krasicki
Andrzej Krasicki (31 October 1918, Tarnów, Poland – 15 January 1995, Warsaw) was a Polish film and theatre actor and theatre director.
Biography
In 1937, he graduated from Staszic high school in Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), offici ...
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Aleksander Sewruk
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Jan Kociniak
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Krzysztof Kowalewski
Krzysztof Kowalewski (20 March 1937 – 6 February 2021) was a Polish actor and comedian.
Biography
Kowalewski was born to a Jewish mother, actress Elżbieta Herszaft-Kowalewska and Polish father, Cyprian Kowalewski, who was a soldier.
His fir ...
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Polish comedy-drama television series
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1977 Polish television series endings
Midlife crisis in television
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