Given the pervasive impression that the cinema as a big-screen attraction has more or less died out in eastern Europe, I was very encouraged by this news item from Polskie Radio’s English-language news site that said that 2007 was the most successful year in Polish cinema history, with 32,500,000 tickets sold.
Even more surprisingly, two out of the three biggest hits were domestic productions, with Shrek the Third followed by Andrzej Wajda’s Katyń and the Tarantino-lite comedy Testosterone (Testosteron) – which I briefly reviewed here (and more substantially in the October 2007 Sight & Sound, though that’s not available online).