The Two Who Stole the Moon (1962)

Original title

O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc

Directed by

Jan Batory

Genre

adventure film, cinematic fairy tale

Country

Polish People's Republic, Poland

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Twin brothers who are always up to mischief decide to steal the moon from the sky. Their adventure leads them through a series of comical and unlikely situations in a fairy-tale version of Poland.

whimsicallightheartednostalgicadventurousfamily-friendlyplayfulold-fashionedgentle

What happens

The Two Who Stole the Moon (Polish: O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc) is a 1962 Polish children's film based on Kornel Makuszyński's 1928 story of the same name. Despite having been known to Polish children for multiple generations, the film gained renewed fame in the 2000s for starring two of the country's future leaders: Lech Kaczyński, who served as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in a 2010 plane crash, and his identical twin brother Jarosław Kaczyński, the Prime Minister of Poland from 2006 to 2007, Chief of Office of the President of Poland from 1990 to 1991, and current chairman of the Law and Justice party. The twins were thirteen at the time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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