Career of Nikos Dyzma (2002)

Original title

Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy

Directed by

Jacek Bromski

Genre

comedy film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 70 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A crude man from the countryside moves to the city. The elite mistake his vulgarity for wisdom, and he climbs the social and political ladder.

satiricalcynicalfast-pacedwrysharpdarkly comicsocially critical

What happens

Career of Nikos Dyzma (also known as Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy in Polish) is a 2002 Polish film directed by Jacek Bromski. The film is a mordant contemporary satire loosely based on the 1932 novel The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, which narrates the story of a crude opportunist from the countryside, whose vulgarity, mistaken by the Polish elite in the capital for canny insight, facilitates his rise through the social and political ranks of the nation. The same novel also inspired the 1979 American film Being There. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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