Botoks

2017 Polish thriller film

29 September 2017 (2017-09-29)

Running time

135 minutesCountryPolandLanguagePolish

Botoks is a 2017 Polish thriller film directed by Patryk Vega. It stars Olga Bołądź, Agnieszka Dygant, Katarzyna Warnke and Marieta Żukowska. It was shot in Warsaw, Paris, Copenhagen and Kenya.^[1] The title literally means "botox" in Polish.

Cast

Olga Bołądź as Daniela
Agnieszka Dygant as Beata Winkler
Katarzyna Warnke as Magda
Marieta Żukowska as Patrycja Banach
Janusz Chabior as Ordynator oddziału
Sebastian Fabijański as Marek
Piotr Stramowski as Michał
Tomasz Oświeciński as Darek
Grażyna Szapołowska
Wojciech Machnicki
Michał Kula
Jan Fabiańczyk
Katarzyna Czapla
Marek Krupiński
Krzysztof Gojdź

Reception

Box office

The film had the second best opening for a Polish film in 30 years (after Vega's previous film Pitbull: Dangerous women), with 711,906 admissions in its opening weekend in Poland.^[1]^[2] It totaled 2.31 million admissions (with average admission cost at €4.2) in 2017, the second highest of the year in Poland after Letters to Santa 3.^[3] In the United Kingdom, it was the third highest-grossing foreign-language film of 2017, as well as the most successful Polish film of all time in the UK, earning £1.06 million at the box office.^[4]

Despite its box office success, the film got nine "Snakes" anti-awards, everywhere where it was nominated.^[5]

2019:Studniówk@ [pl]

References

^ ^a ^b Shortall, Eithne (2017-10-22). "Botoks film success is Poles apart from its media attention". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
^ "Botox Tops Polish Box Office". Film New Europe. 3 October 2017.
^ Grynienko, Katarzyna (1 February 2018). "FNE Country Report 2017: POLAND". Film New Europe.
^ Gilbey, Ryan (3 May 2018). "Why Polish gangster films 'on steroids' are making it big at the British box office". The Guardian.
^ Kamil Śmiałkowski, twórca Węży, tłumaczy, dlaczego "Botoks" wygrał