Pigs 2: The Last Blood

1994 1h 40m PL

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 50

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Synopsis

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Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Bogusław Linda
Franz Maurer
Cezary Pazura
podporucznik Waldemar Morawiec "Nowy"
Artur Żmijewski
Radosław Wolf
Magdalena Dandourian
Nadia
Aleksander Bednarz
major Stanisław Bień
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Tadeusz Stopczyk, kapitan UOP
Jan Machulski
Walenda, major UOP
Valeriy Priyomykhov
Sawczuk

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Władysław Pasikowski
Writers: Władysław Pasikowski
Languages: Polish, Russian
Countries: Poland

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ERA

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32 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Polish, Russian.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Pigs Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Władysław Pasikowski, shot by Paweł Edelman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Michał Lorenc. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Wanda Zeman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Bogusław Linda and Cezary Pazura and Artur Żmijewski carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0110908 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Władysław Pasikowski directs. Paweł Edelman behind the camera. Michał Lorenc scores. Wanda Zeman cuts. Produced in Poland. Dialogue in Polish, Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

132 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Polish, Russian.
3Part of the "Pigs Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Władysław Pasikowski, shot by Paweł Edelman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Michał Lorenc. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Wanda Zeman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Bogusław Linda and Cezary Pazura and Artur Żmijewski carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt0110908 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Paweł Edelman
Original score: Michał Lorenc
Editing: Wanda Zeman
Production design: Andrzej Przedworski
Costume design: Elżbieta Radke
Makeup / hair: Iwona Karpińska
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Status: Released
Original language: PL
IMDB: Pigs 2: The Last Blood (1994)

Part of

Pigs Collection

What is 'Pigs' about? 'About a dog's world, about the fact that freedom also engenders filth and stupidity while destroying ideals. Everything has been debased, sullied in mud, thrown into the cesspool,' wrote a reviewer. Such extreme critical reactions were elicited by the film's subject matter and its portrayal of the world as fundamentally castrated of positives and saturated with cynicism, moral dirt and cruelty. A world that is simultaneously hardly abstract, and in fact present in the here and now (i.e. in Poland in 1989), one that is additionally portrayed in an iconoclastic and provocative manner, derisive of all things sacred, be they related to nation or religion.