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Mjenjačnica (2005)

Mjenjačnica poster
Genre
reality television, comedy television program, documentary
Country
Croatia
Length
2 seasons, 28 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a Croatian reality series where well-known public figures trade jobs with regular working people. Each episode shows a celebrity take on an unfamiliar blue-collar role while the worker tries their hand at the celebrity's profession.

observationalreal-lifeearnestunvarnishedmatter-of-factplayfuldocu-style

What happens

Mjenjačnica ("The Exchange Office") was a Croatian documentary reality television series created and hosted by Robert Knjaz. The series documents prominent Croatian public figures as they exchange roles with the members of the working class. Mjenjačnica debuted on RTL on 12 January 2005, and concluded with its second and final season on 30 May 2006. The series has later been re-run on RTL 2 and re-released on RTL's streaming service Voyo. Following the conclusion of Mjenjačnica, Knjaz created Koledžicom po svijetu, a similar series where celebrities were taken to exotic destinations; it premiered on RTL in 2007. In 2023, Knjaz went on to create Knjazalište, another series similar to Mjenjačnica that ran on HRT 1. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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