Piggies (Şwinki)
German title: Ich, Tomek
Russian title: Свинки / Я, Томек
Original title: Şwinki
Russian title: Свинки / Я, Томек
Original title: Şwinki
Alternative titles:
Goodbye Tomek / Swinki
Goodbye Tomek / Swinki
Drama – Poland, Germany
Production year: 2008
Movie length: 94 minutes
Production year: 2008
Movie length: 94 minutes
Director: Robert Gliński
Movie description:
The film deals with teenage prostitution and examine moral decadence in this conservative, abidingly Catholic nation. »Piggies« (Swinki), by the acclaimed director Robert Glinski, is about Polish boys working as prostitutes across the border in Germany.
Tomek is 14 and a good student. He’s interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him.
Tomek is 14 and a good student. He’s interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him.
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