GROM brings action to movie business

A film based on the recent history of Polish commandojednostka do zadań specjalnych unit GROM is in preliminarywstępny talks with a New York based film distributordistrybutor, the movie's co-producer Agnieszka Petelicka told the Business Journal on Thursday.

The news is the best sign yet that the film has a chance of internationalmiędzynarodowy sales and finance that will bring a much-needed booststymulus, bodziec to Poland's beleaguerednękany kłopotami movie business.
"We need to sell three million tickets in our Polish theatrical release to even begin to make a profitzysk," says Petelicka, "Distribution in America will be a great opportunityokazja, możliwość to massivelyznacznie increase sales." Petelicka is the wife of GROM founder General (Ret.) Sławomir Petelicki, who is actingto act: pełnić obowiązki as an adviserdoradca on the movie.

The fact-basedoparty na faktach movie will follow the story of six male and one female commandojednostka do zadań specjalnych, and will recountto recount: opisywać GROM action around the world since the formationutworzenie, powstanie of the unit at the end of the Cold WarZimna Wojna. The special forces have had training from the British SAS and American SEAL forces. Their operations have included the evacuationewakuacja of Jews from Russia to Israel in the early nineties, involvementzaangażowanie in Operation Restore Democracy in Haiti and, most recently, in securing the port of Um Quasr during 2003's Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Independent film producer Jan Dowjat anticipatesto anticipate: przewidywać that this is perfect timingświetny okres for such a film. "We are hungry for a patriotic message, but we are hungry for a new tone in Polish cinema," says Dowjat. "This could be the next phasefaza, etap of privately-financed Polish cinema that attemptsto attempt: próbować a departure fromodstąpienie od the costume dramas of Wajda and Hoffman."
Petelicka runs a film companyto run a film company: prowadzić firmę produkującą filmy that has already produced a successful documentaryfilm dokumentalny about Polish-Israeli relations, sponsored by the Richard Krauze Foundation. The objectivecel, zadanie of the film was to turn aroundto turn around: odwrócić = zmienić opinię, zdanie the imageobraz, wizerunek of Poland in Israel where, according towedług Petelicka, "Many people we interviewedto interview: przeprowadzać wywiad, przesłuchiwać blamedto blame: winić, obwiniać Poles for the holocaust. We have documented how many Poles were involved in saving Jewish lives during the War."

The GROM movie has a similar moral objectivecel, zadanie. Early draftsszkice of the screenplay, written by veteran screenwriter Cezary Harasimowicz, have a patriotic tone in which Poles are portrayedto portray: portretować as tolerant, professional and courageousodważny. "We need role models in this country," says Harasimowicz, "and we have them in the form of GROM, but we must celebrate and preserveto preserve: zachować that unit's legacyspuścizna."
Petelicka likensto liken: porównywać the structure and tone of the film to the epicsepic: epopeja of Sienkiewicz, and it is similarly intendedto be intended to: być zamierzonym to booststymulus, bodziec national prideduma narodowa, albeitaczkolwiek with a social and political message based on recent facts.
Pre-production of the movie is set against a backdrop ofrozgrywa się na tle ... controversy surrounding the commandojednostka do zadań specjalnych unit. Earlier this month, Roman Polko, the man who commanded GROM behind enemy lines in Iraq last year, resigned in protest against a plan to break up the unit.

"GROM are national heroes," says General Petelicki. "The 'Polish braverymęstwo, odwaga' that you hear world leaders talk about is the braverymęstwo, odwaga of GROM. The respect we have from our western alliessprzymierzeńcy is respect for GROM. The men who want to disband the unitrozwiązać jednostkę have an interest in keeping Poland's conscript armyarmia z poboru."
General Petelicki agrees that at least in part, the making of this film is a public relations campaign to preserveto preserve: zachować Poland's specialist unit and to raise awarenessświadomość of the need for a professional army.

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