The Funniest Polish Comedies
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This section is for comedies from Poland. By default they are presented starting with the ones ranking highest on the laugh-o-meter, but you can also sort them by year, title or IMDB rating.
Funniest Polish Comedies sorted by Laugh-o-meter (descending)
The Hitman
(
Kiler)
1997 |
Poland | Laughs: 7.4 (Laugh and Smile) |
imdb: 7.6
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A taxi driver protests when he is arrested in place of a killer. When no one believes him, he starts to play along. Comedies from outside the major movie-producing centers are sometimes a bit rough, but this Polish movie was a great watch. I laughed and smiled even though I had to read the subtitles—it must be even funnier if you understand the language.
(Last viewed: October 2010)
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Teddy Bear
(
Miś)
1981 |
Poland | Laughs: 7.4 (Laugh and Smile) |
imdb: 8.2
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who was involved?
In pre-capitalistic Poland, the manager of a sports club must scheme to obtain a passport in time to beat his ex-wife to London to withdraw his money. I don't speak Polish, but this movie kept me smiling all the way through and made me laugh at least once. I happen to have visited Poland in 1982, a year after the movie was made, so its ambience was familiar. But my friend who has never been to Poland loved the movie too. Woven into the engrossing "swindle plot", there are delicious scenes of bureaucracy at work, a candid view of the black market and "innocent" references to the occasional unavailability of comforts such ham, transportation and hot water. The director did a great job at showing the humor in the strange situation of life in those days—rather than making a tragedy of it or a big political statement. Polish title: Miś.
(Last viewed: November 2010)
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Go for Broke
(
Vabank)
1981 |
Poland | Laughs: 2.5 (Light-Hearted) |
imdb: 7.9
wikipedia |
who was involved?
In Polish, by the same director as
Kiler. I don't usually go for period movies, but thanks to its strong plot and acting, this turned into one of the best heist movies I've seen. It's always nice to see unpleasant characters come undone. Smiled a lot, and laughed a few times towards the end.
(Last viewed: January 2012)
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How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?
(
Ile waży koń trojański?)
2008 |
Poland | Laughs: 1.8 (Light-Hearted) |
imdb: 5.8
wikipedia |
who was involved?
In the year 2000, a Polish woman falls through a time warp and travels back to communist times, when she has a chance to meet her future husband fifteen years ahead of time.
This was cute but slow. The ex-husband (Robert Wieckiewicz) had terrific comedic potential, but sadly there was too little of him.
Altogether, not a terrific use of two hours — unless you speak Polish or are fascinated by the transformations that took place in Eastern Europe during that decade… and it's hard not to be.
(Last viewed: December 2019)
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Sexmission
(
Seksmisja)
1984 |
Poland | Laughs: 1.7 (Don't Bother) |
imdb: 7.7
wikipedia |
who was involved?
Frozen for three years for a scientific experiment, two men wake up half a century later as the only males in a highly hierarchical world four hundred yards below the Earth's surface.
Out of this provocative premise come no great laugh, no great insight, but some chaotic or nonsensical situations that reminded me of Mel Brooks, perhaps my least favorite comedy director of all times.
Juliusz Machulski directed some fairly decent comedies (
The Hitman comes to mind) but this is not one of them.
When you run out of ideas for a comedy, show some firm human female mammary glands.
(laughdb's eighth law of comedy)
That is the ancient formula the Polish director decided to follow. If that happens to be your vice, in this day and age, you probably have better ways to get your fix.
It's a long movie, so be warned: don't waste your time unless you want to watch "ironically", as fans of "cult" flicks like to do.
(Last viewed: December 2016)
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