Back Then (2021)

6.6/10 94 min Comedy Drama History

Overview

Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their married life. He is an intelligent constantly humiliated by the state, he also makes his own moonshine after work and silently envies his prosperous brother in law. She is the leader of the "Solidarity" union at work, with the need for freedom and a dream to get out of Poland. The real adventure for the family starts when they manage to get their dream orange Fiat 126p. Ela and Tadek discover their appetite for trading and trips abroad, and the growing Marta will fall in love for the first time.

Cast

Kinga Preis

Elżbieta Makowska

Adam Woronowicz

Tadeusz Makowski

Ewa Wiśniewska

Grandma

Milena Lisiecka

Grażyna

Przemysław Bluszcz

Mietek

Katarzyna Kwiatkowska

Lucyna

Rafał Rutkowski

Zenek

Dorota Landowska

Waitress Halina

Barbara Dziekan

Human resource manager

Agnieszka Przepiórska

Saleswoman in the furniture store

Marcin Bosak

PE teacher

Klara Bielawka

Customs officer (I)

Cezary Łukaszewicz

Department head

Magdalena Biegańska

Krysia

Zbigniew Paterak

Zbyszek

Grażyna Zielińska

Trader Leokadia

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