Agnieszka Holland’s Migrant Crisis Drama ‘Green Border’ Posts Record Opening Weekend In Poland In Face Of Political Backlash
deadline.comAgnieszka Holland’s migrant crisis drama Green Border has achieved the best opening weekend in Poland for a Polish film in 2023 in spite of a fierce political backlash from the country’s right-wing government.
The picture’s Polish distributor Kino Świat said on Monday that the film, which launched theatrically on September 2022, had drawn 137,000 spectators on its opening weekend which is the best result for a Polish film this year.
The drama, which explores the mistreatment of migrants along Poland’s thickly forested border with Belarus on both sides, has been subjected to a vitriolic political backlash and online hate campaign since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.
The film has hit a particularly raw nerve with Poland’s ruling right-wing, anti-immigrant coalition government, led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, for its scenes showing Polish border guards pushing vulnerable people back over the border into Belarus.
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