Published: 2025-12-30

The image of women in films about the Polish People’s Republic

Patrycja Winiarczyk
Kultura Media Teologia
Section: peer-reviewed article
https://doi.org/10.21697/kmt.2025.64.08

Abstract

The article presents images of women in selected feature films set in the Polish People’s Republic: Rewers (dir. Borys Lankosz, 2009), Wszystko co kocham (dir. Jacek Borcuch, 2009), Różyczka (dir. Jan Kidawa-Błoński, 2010), Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej (dir. Maria Sadowska,

2017), Bo we mnie jest seks (dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, 2021), Marzec ’68 (dir. Krzysztof Lang, 2022). The selected films

(purposefully chosen) represent various genres, and female characters play diverse narrative and plot roles in them. The aim of this article is to analyze the image of female characters, taking into account the following categories: physical characteristics, personality traits and attitude towards the world, relationships with men, and social roles. Referring to the literature on female characters in cinema and the assumptions of the media and textual image of the world, I propose my own profiles of women in films about the Polish People’s Republic: women as tools of repression, women as revolutionaries, and women caught up in conflicts between generations and ideologies. The article uses a triangulation of methods: content analysis and the cognitive definition method proposed by representatives of the so-called Lublin school of ethnolinguistics.

Keywords:

female film characters, types of women, Polish People’s Republic, textual images of the world

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Winiarczyk, Patrycja. “The Image of Women in Films about the Polish People’s Republic”. Kultura Media Teologia, vol. 4, no. 64, Dec. 2025, pp. 116–134 , doi:10.21697/kmt.2025.64.08.

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