Czterdziestolatek

Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek (English: The Forty-year-old; emitted by TVP Polonia as English: Being Forty) was a Polish television comedy series broadcast between 1974 and 1977. The first series enjoyed so much popularity that it has successfully continued and led to the release of a feature film I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old 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.^[1]

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 made in the mid 1990s with a cast that included Joanna Kurowska, Wojciech Mann and Wojciech Malajkat.

Episodes

1. The toast, or closer than further (Toast czyli bliżej niż dalej)
2. Struggle with addiction, or maze (Walka z nałogiem czyli labirynt)
3. Come by whenever you'd like, or dulled stimuli (Wpadnij kiedy zechcesz czyli bodźce stępione)
4. The portrait, or how to be loved (Portret czyli jak być kochanym)
5. Physical fitness, or the fight against the birth certificate (Kondycja fizyczna czyli walka z metryką)
6. Flora's hair, or the maze (Włosy Flory czyli labirynt)
7. Judym or a social action (Judym czyli czyn społeczny)
8. Opening of the route, or free time (Otwarcie trasy czyli czas wolny)
9. Family, or strangers at home (Rodzina czyli obcy w domu)
10. Postcard from Spitsbergen, or enchantment (Pocztówka ze Spitzbergenu czyli oczarowanie)
11. Somebody elses misery, or defense witness(Cudze nieszczęście czyli świadek obrony)
12. New deputy, or the meteor (Nowy zastępca czyli meteor)
13. The scapegoat, or the rotation (Kozioł ofiarny czyli rotacja)
14. Małkiewicz case or kamikaze (Sprawa Małkiewicza czyli kamikadze)
15. Expensive gift or revisit (Kosztowny drobiazg czyli rewizyta)
16. Where have you been or Shakespeare (Gdzie byłaś czyli Szekspir)
17. A cunning beast, or the cristal (Cwana bestia czyli kryształ)
18. War game or on the billet (Gra wojenna czyli na kwaterze)
19. Away from people, or something of your own (Z dala od ludzi czyli coś swojego)
20. In self-defense, or the hunt (W obronie własnej czyli polowanie)
21. Shadow's streak, or the first serious warning (Smuga cienia czyli pierwsze poważne ostrzeżenie)

Original cast

References

External links

• Czterdziestolatek at the Internet Movie Database