Boża podszewka ("God's Lining") and Boża podszewka. Część druga ("God's Lining. Part Two") are Polish TV series based on the novel with the same title by Teresa Lubkiewicz-Urbanowicz about the life of petty szlachta in the backwaters of the Vilnius Region. The first part was aired in 15 episodes during 1997–1998 and covered the time period 1900-1945.[1] The second part was aired in 16 episodes during 2005-2006 and covered the time period 1945-1948.[2] It was the debut work of Izabella Cywińska as film director.[3]
When the airing started, the series caused a considerable controversy across the whole Poland among the people originating from the Kresy region, which the Vilnius Region was part of. They claimed that the series created a distorted, unflattering image of the people from the Vilnius region.[4]
Etymology
The Polish expression "Boża podszewka" ("God's lining") is a dismissive reference to an unimportant, disregarded person.[5] In an afterword to one of the editions of the book Lubkiewicz-Urbanowicz wrote that in Vilnius Region the expression referred to the last, unwanted, child. In the book and film, the protagonist Marianna/Maryśka is exactly that: the last of nine children, physically weak, treated by parents worse than her siblings.[6]
References
- ^ BOŻA PODSZEWKA @ filmpolski.pl
- ^ BOŻA PODSZEWKA. CZĘŚĆ DRUGA @ filmpolski.pl
- ^ Izabella Cywinska
- ^ "Gwałt na tradycji". Serial TVP wywołał ogólnopolski protest
- ^ Jan Karłowicz, Słownik gwar polskich, vol. 1, 1900, p. 109
- ^ Tomasz Korpysz, Boża podszewka, Idziemy June 25, 2017
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