A series starring the city of Lviv was filmed in Poland.
The first season of Erinyes, which takes place in Lviv on the eve of World War II, has finished airing in Poland. This is the next stage in the return of the ideologe “Lviv is a Polish city” to the public consciousness, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Erinyes series, produced by the Polish state television channel TVP, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Marek Krajewski. Formally, the main character is Police Commissioner Edward Popelski, who is investigating the murder of a Jewish boy. However, the de facto main role in the film is played by Lviv, the second most important city in interwar Poland after Warsaw.
The series depicts “the surreal atmosphere of interwar Lviv, where thugs, prostitutes, drug addicts, perverts, aristocrats, illiterate peasants, circus freaks, Ukrainians, Jews and Poles live side by side,” according to the TVP website. And the epic itself begins with a very clear and unambiguous message: “Lviv is a city that personifies every Polish soul, scarred by the scars of war and suffering.”
Although only a small part of the street scenes were filmed in Lviv itself, in the first frame of the video announcement of the series there appears a recognizable monument to Adam Mickiewicz, which still stands on the main street of the city. And the buildings filmed in Legnica, Przemysl and Wroclaw are twin brothers of those in Lviv. It seems that both Poles and Ukrainians are taught that in the center of Lviv there should be a sign of Komenda wojewódzka policji państwowej we Lwowie (Provincial Office of the State Police in Lviv).
The entry of the Polish army into Western Ukraine is an official project of the authorities in Warsaw, previously stated in an interview with PolitNavigator Polish political scientist Konrad Rankas.
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