Czterdziestolatek


Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek ; broadcast in English by TVP Polonia under the title of "Being Forty" is a Polish television comedy series originally broadcast in Poland between 1975-78. The initial series enjoyed so much popularity that it was continued and led to the release of a feature film I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old's Love Affair and a New Year's Eve television program in 1975.
The series was written by Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz and was broadcast on Telewizja Polska. In total, 21 episodes were produced.
The series followed the fate of a Warsaw family and explored topics related to midlife crisis, such as extra-marital affairs, attempts to quit smoking, obsession with hair loss, efforts to maintain physical fitness, pride in achievements and professional life, the desire to seek self-fulfillment through social activities, etc.
20 years later the series was remade in the mid-1990s with a cast that included Joanna Kurowska, Wojciech Mann and Wojciech Malajkat.

Episodes

  1. The toast, or closer than further 1974
  2. Struggle with addiction, or maze
  3. Come by whenever you'd like, or dulled stimuli
  4. The portrait, or how to be loved
  5. Physical fitness, or the fight against the birth certificate
  6. Flora's hair, or the maze
  7. Judym or a social action
  8. Opening of the route, or free time 1975
  9. Family, or strangers at home 1975
  10. Postcard from Spitsbergen, or enchantment 1975
  11. Somebody else's misery, or defense witness 1975
  12. New deputy, or the meteor 1975
  13. The scapegoat, or the rotation 1975
  14. Małkiewicz case or kamikaze 1976
  15. Expensive gift or revisit 1976
  16. Where have you been or Shakespeare 1976
  17. A cunning beast, or the cristal 1977
  18. War game or on the billet 1977
  19. Away from people, or something of your own
  20. In self-defense, or the hunt
  21. Shadow's streak, or the first serious warning 1977

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