Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.