Director: Wojciech Adamczyk
Writer: Robert Brutter
Executive producer: Maciej Strzembosz, Dorota Hawliczek, Paweł Mantorski (Studio A)
Airs on: TVP1
Starring: Anna Maria Buczek, Anna Gorajska, Magdalena Wróbel, Katarzyna Ucherska, Marta Lipińska, Marian Dziędziel, Dorota Segda, Józef Pawłowski, Adrian Zaremba, Sławomir Grzymkowski
Opis
“Dziewczyny ze Lwowa” (Girls from Lviv) is a drama-comedy series following four young girls who come to Warsaw seeking a better life. The new 13-episode series, produced by Studio A, will reveal if the girls find a place for themselves in the unfamiliar world and what challenges they will face.
Once in Warsaw, the girls find illegal jobs, mostly as domestic workers. They rent a dirt-cheap room in a derelict downtown tenement house from Henryk (Marian Dziędziel), a charming old man, who, as it later turns out, has run slightly afoul of the law.
The central characters are Ulyana (Anna Gorajska), Polina (Magdalena Wróbel), Olya (Katarzyna Ucherska) and Swietlana (Anna Buczek).
Ulyana is a young mother, graduate of the Lviv Conservatory, who has no income and no prospects after losing her job. In Warsaw she gets a job as a cleaner in a beautiful house, working for a toxic family of a partially paralyzed elderly gentleman (Stanisław Brejdygant), his nothing-to-be-proud-of son (Sławomir Grzymkowski) and mean daughter-in-law (Dorota Segda). When the elderly man, who shares Uliana’s love for music, finds out that back home she used her delicate fingers to play the violin rather than wield a broom, he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, starting a conflict between Ulyana and his son and daughter-in-law who will do anything to make Ulyana’s life miserable.
Though a manager by training, Polina had sunk all her savings into a modeling agency that has just gone bust. The most resourceful and mouthy of the four, she wants to continue as a businesswoman in Poland. With her relentless energy, diligence and skills, she seems cut out for this. But the road to the top, as it turns out, is bumpy and bendy.
With no training that could easily land her a job, Olya is hopelessly romantic and in love with the canny slacker Igorek (Józef Pawłowski). She is shy, insecure, fearful and always out of luck. When her young neighbor Tomek (Adrian Zaremba) falls for her at first sight, Olya cannot believe that a girl like her can form a happy relationship with a cool Polish boy who wants to make her life a bed of roses without thorns. But her beloved rushes to Poland, unsettled by the news about the budding competition that might cut him off from the steady stream of cash from his fiancé.
Svyeta has a long-term outlook on life. Out of her many employers she picks one who would make a perfect husband and father, a lonely barrister (Krzysztof Stelmaszyk) with a good job and apartment. But to add to her woes, she falls in love with him. A casual love affair is one thing, but a relationship of a well-respected barrister with a not-too-rich girl from Ukraine is quite another. But if they play their cards right, why not?
Through their work the protagonists meet all sorts of people, see various homes and find themselves in different situations. They meet both likeable (the actress Kasia played by Paulina Chapko) and unlikeable people and make friends.
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