''The Londoners'' (

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

: ''Londyńczycy'', ) is a drama television series directed by Maciej Migas and Greg Zglinski, and written by Ewa Popiołek and Marek Kreutz. It has 2 seasons of 29 episodes, which originally aired from 23 October 2008 to 23 December 2009 on

TVP1 TVP1 (TVP Jeden, ''Telewizja Polska 1'', ''Program Pierwszy Telewizji Polskiej'', ''"Jedynka"'') is the main public television channel of Telewizja Polska, TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Po ...

. The series focuses on the lives of an

ensemble cast In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.Random House: ensemble acting Linked 2013-07-17 Structure In contrast to the po ...

of first-generation

immigrants living in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, United Kingdom, with a mixture of dialogue in

and English.

Premise

The series focuses on the lives of an

of first-generation

immigrants living in

, United Kingdom.

Cast

Main roles

* Natalia Rybicka as Asia Budzisz * Lesław Żurek as Andrzej *

Robert Więckiewicz Robert Więckiewicz (born 30 June 1967) is a Polish film and television actor from Nowa Ruda, Poland. He is a member of the European Film Academy. In 2013, he received Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his role in fil ...

as Marcin Malec (main in season 1, guest starring in season 2) * Gabriela Muskała as Ewa Malec * Michał Włodarczyk as Staś Malec * Rafał Maćkowiak as Paweł * Marietta Żukowska as Maria Rost (guest starring in season 1, main in season 2) * Marcin Bosak as Wojtek Górski * Kamila Baar as Kasia *

Przemysław Sadowski Przemysław Sadowski (born March 18, 1975) is a Polish actor. Biography He was born in Hajnówka, but grew up in Białystok. He participated first degree music school in piano and guitar. Before he completed his studies in 1999 at the National ...

as Darek Michalski *

Grażyna Barszczewska Grażyna is a Polish feminine given name. The name was created by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz for the main character of his 1823 poem '' Grażyna''. The name is derived from the Lithuanian adjective ''gražus'', meaning "pretty", "beautiful ...

as Nina Strzegomska * Roma Gąsiorowska as Mariola Biedrzycka

Other roles

* Selva Rasalingam as Zayed Rampal *Marcin Tyrol as Roman *

Małgorzata Buczkowska Małgorzata Buczkowska (born 25 August 1976, in Lublin) is a Polish film and stage actress, best known outside Poland for her leading role in Zasada przyjemnosci. (The Principle of Pleasure, Géométrie de la mort, etc.) She was awarded the '' ...

as Wiola *James Doherty as Alvin Fox * Dominic Cazenove as Peter *Maja Bohosiewicz as Kinga *Janusz Chabior as Jacek * Michal Czernecki as Robal *Przemyslaw Redkowski as a worker *Nadia Aldridge as Kate *Allan Hale as Miguel Ribeiro *Sławomir Orzechowski as Wiesio *Ryan Hurst as James Dyer *Marcin Juchniewicz as

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

person *Dariusz Juzyszyn as Misza *Nicholas Kipriano as Ali * David Price as John Brown *Julia Balsewicz as Iza *Sylwia Juszczak as Justyna *Weronika Rosati as Weronika Fox *Fionnuala Ellwood as Annabelle *David Broughton-Davies *Maurice Byrne as Edward Watson, an actor *Zbigniew Borek as Budzisz, Asia's father *Michał Sitarski as Tomasz Skowronek *Piotr Borowski as Rumun *Oliver Gilbert as John, a teacher *Joanna Hole as Janis *Grzegorz Jurkiewicz *Patricia Kazadi as Helen Hobbs, a receptionist *Zbigniew Konopka as a worker *Mehdi Rezvan as Hamid *Rakel Dimar as Mary *Zygmunt Malanowicz as Władek *Anita Wright as Emily *

Weronika Książkiewicz Weronika Książkiewicz (born 21 March 1981) is a Polish actress. She is best known for playing Ola in the romantic comedy film ''Planet Single'' (2016) and Dzika in the crime drama film ''Furioza'' (2021). Early life Książkiewicz was born in ...

as Agnieszka * Kacper Kowalski as Willy * Aleksandra Konieczna as Basia *

Katarzyna Figura Katarzyna Małgorzata Figura (Polish pronunciation: ; born 22 March 1962) is a Polish film, theatre and television actress. She is sometimes billed as "Kasia Figura", as in ''Prêt-à-Porter (film), Prêt-à-Porter'', Robert Altman, Robert Altman' ...

as Elizabeth * Rui Carlos Ferreira as Edilson Ribeiro * Gareth Llewelyn as Steven * Philip Michael as Jamal * Nathan Lewis as Tanzan * Victor Perel as Lifesaver * Harry Napier as Brian

Production

The series was written by Ewa Popiołek and Marek Kreutz, who, to prepare themselves, spent several weeks among

families of immigrants in

, United Kingdom. It was created by the company Telemark; directed by Maciej Migas and Greg Zglinski; and produced by Marcin Marcinkiewicz, Rafał Golis, Joanna Strzelecka, and Marios Hamboulides. The cinematography was done by Tomasz Dobrowolski, editing by Leszek Starzyński, music by Radosław Łuka, scenography by Jacek Turewicz and Wojciech Saloni-Marczewski, costumes by Dominika Gebel, and characterisation by Iwona Kajszczak and Tomasz Matraszek. The main cast included

, Rafał Maćkowiak, Lesław Żurek, Roma Gąsiorowska, Karolina Kominek-Skuratowicz, Maja Bohosiewicz, and Michał Włodarczyk. Around half of the scenes were shot in

, England, in the neighbourhoods of

Soho SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street, Houston Street", is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, art installations such as The Wall ...

City A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is a financial area of London, England, located in the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Greater London Authority defines it as part of London's central business district, alongside Central London. Alongside ...

Ealing Ealing () is a district in west London (sub-region), west London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. It is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Pl ...

, and West End, while the rest were shot in Poland. The series originally aired on

, with its first season consisting of 13 episodes airing from 23 October 2008 to 29 January 2009, and its second season of 16 episodes, from 10 September to 23 December 2009. On 20 May 2010, the

Polish Television Television in Poland was Timeline of the introduction of television in countries, introduced on an experimental basis in 1937. It was state owned, and was interrupted by the Second World War in 1939. Television returned to Poland in 1952 and for ...

(TVP) had announced that the series was cancelled.

Episodes

References

External links

* *
The Londoners
' on FilmPolski.pl (in Polish) *
The Londoners
' on

Filmweb Filmweb is an online database of information related to films, television series, actors and film crew personnel. Since 2011, the database also contains video games. Filmweb was launched on March 18, 1998. It is a Polish-language site, and the la ...

(in Polish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Londoners, The Television shows set in London Television series about immigration 2008 Polish television series debuts 2009 Polish television series endings 2000s drama television series Television shows shot in London Polish-British culture Telewizja Polska original programming Television shows filmed in Poland