Glitter (Polish TV series)

Glitter
Polish	Brokat
Genre	Drama
Created by	Aleksandra Chmielewska Maciej Kubicki
Written by	Aleksandra Chmielewska Maciej Kubicki Sławomir Łonisk Marek Baranowski Alicja Arominska-Woyde Ewa Stec
Directed by	Anna Kazejak Marek Lechki Julia Kolberger Rafał Skalski
Starring	Magdalena Popławska Wiktoria Filus Matylda Giegżno
Composers	Jerzy Rogiewicz Bartłomiej Tyciński
Country of origin	Poland
Original language	Polish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Producer	Maciej Kubicki
Cinematography	Paweł Flis
Editors	Aleksandra Gowin Beata Walentowska Hubert Pusek
Running time	28–35 minutes
Production companies	Netflix Telemark
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)

Glitter (Polish: Brokat) is a Polish drama television series. It was released on Netflix on 14 December 2022.

Premise

The series follows the lives of three sex workers in Sopot in 1976, during the Gierek era of Communist Poland.

Cast

• Magdalena Popławska as Helena Michałowska
• Wiktoria Filus as Pola
• Matylda Giegżno as Marysia
• Bartłomiej Kotschedoff as Bogdan
• Szymon Piotr Warszawski as Władek
• Łukasz Simlat as Adam
• Stanisław Linowski as Staszek
• Jędrzej Hycnar as Jurek
• Folco Marchi as Tomas Barre

Episodes

No.	Title	Duration	Original air date
1	"The Night of Love" (Noc miłości)	35 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
2	"Welcome to the Club"	34 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
3	"I Want You to Watch" (Chcę, żebyś patrzył)	32 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
4	"It Will Be Sunny" (Będzie słonecznie)	28 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
5	"What About Sex?" (A seks?)	29 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
6	"What a Girl Dreams Of" (O czym marzy dziewczyna)	35 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
7	"Stripteases Galore" (Noc striptizów wszelakich)	28 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
8	"Not All at Once" (Nie wszystko od razu)	29 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
9	"Peace Cup" (Puchar Pokoju)	33 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)
10	"The Feast of Song" (Święto piosenki)	35 min	14 December 2022 (2022-12-14)

Production

Showrunner Aleksandra Chmielewska was inspired to create the series after reading a Polityka article by Anna Dobrowolska about sex work in the Polish People's Republic. Chmielewska stated, "In the first half of the Gierek decade, Poland opened up to the West. Foreigners began to come to us and pay in dollars... Women earned as much for one [sexual encounter] with a client as others earned for a month of working in an office. Sex work was one of the few, if not the only, ways to achieve financial independence. Sex workers were among the country's elite."

The series was filmed in the Tri-City area, including Sopot, Orłowo in Gdynia, and Hala Olivia and Biskupia Górka in Gdańsk.

Reception

Joel Keller of Decider wrote, "Glitter makes a real effort to concentrate on its main characters instead of leaning on period clichés, and does so without judgement or a sense of kitsch. Because of that, the characters have room to breathe and develop, something you don’t always see on shows set in the wild '70s."

Andrzej Kulasek of Gazeta Wyborcza referred to Glitter as "a Polish series that surprises with a well-written script, a coherent story, great acting and fantastic editing." Małgorzata Major of Wirtualne Media commended Glitter's cinematography, production design, and costume design, calling the series "beautifully filmed" and "the most stylish production I have seen this year." She cited, however, the series' banality and clichés, writing, "The series does worse when it tries to tell the complex stories of its characters. The closer we get to the finale, the more we run aground."

External links

• Glitter on Netflix
• Glitter on IMDb