Poland: classic TV series banned!

[Boroda]

"Czterej pancerni i pies", "Stawka wieksza niz zycie" - banned on Polish TV as a result of AK veterans complains.

Both "Four tankers and a dog"  and "A bet is bigger then just life"  are classic WWII films, one about a T-34 tank crew, and another - about Polish spy working under cover as a nazi officer.

The main reason for ban, as http://www.lenta.ru says, is that in this films nazis are portrayed as "complete idiots", that even little boys can beat.

There are some things I can't understand. Maybe this AK veterans spend their lifes in emigration, and didn't see this series when they were kids. Compared to many Western movies this ones are extraordinarily good.

A link to an article in Russian: http://www.lenta.ru/news/2006/08/07/zapret/

[Krusher]

Originally posted by Boroda
[BThe main reason for ban, as http://www.lenta.ru says, is that in this films nazis are portrayed as "complete idiots", that even little boys can beat.
 [/B]

They probably won't be translating re-runs of "Hogan's Hero's" to Polish then.

I seee nothingggggggggg !

[fd ski]

They weren't "banned" just pulled of the air.

Real reason is that they were made in communist times and glorified "communist brotherhood" - regardless of how much truth was in it. Capitan Kloss was a russian agent for example.

I watched 4 Tankmen and Dog recently, i remember it as being great, now after the years it was borderline funny.

Basically in Poland when government changes, they get their own people in all sorts of jobs, including directior of public TV, which means almost all decisions are political

[Saintaw]

*cough* especialy when familly gets involved

[Boroda]

Originally posted by fd ski
They weren't "banned" just pulled of the air.

Probably I used a wrong word, anyway - pulled off the air is very close to being banned. Russian Channel 1 said that in Poland "4 tankmen" were shown every summer during summer school vacations, is it true? Here they show it almost every year on one or another decimeter wave channel.

Originally posted by fd ski
Real reason is that they were made in communist times and glorified "communist brotherhood" - regardless of how much truth was in it. Capitan Kloss was a russian agent for example.

It's funny - but the explaination from Tadeush Filipkovsky, deputy-chairman of Armija Krajova assosiation (WTF is this? Veteran organisation or some young people using the same name?) was that "nazis are a gang of idiots while they were greatest army" and "war is shown as an adventure and it's horrors are not mentioned".

Originally posted by fd ski
I watched 4 Tankmen and Dog recently, i remember it as being great, now after the years it was borderline funny.

Same thing here, but it's still a nice film for kids. At least kids will know that we fought together.

Originally posted by fd ski
Basically in Poland when government changes, they get their own people in all sorts of jobs, including directior of public TV, which means almost all decisions are political

I can't say the same thing about Russia, especially about the media, but it's very close to what you described. And despite of the official anti-communist agenda - they still show old Soviet films including Chapayev and other great movies. Interesting, but it seems now that Soviet cinema was nuch less influenced by political needs. There are plenty of Soviet films without "heroic commissars" advising commanders what to do, but now there are no war-movies without Evil Stalin, NKVD Monsters and GULAG.

BTW, in May they even showed "Battle of Stalingrad" and "Fall of Berlin", but made comments about how evil Stalin was, while in this films he's almost a comic character, advising Zhukov and Vasilevsky on how to fight nazis, and Marshalls look like imbeciles when he explains obvious things to them.

[midnight Target]

I blame the AK's too.