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Release Date: 1989 Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Fantasy, World cinema Kingsajz is a 1987 cult Polish comedy fantasy film directed by very popular director - Juliusz Machulski. The action takes place in contemporary Poland (late communistic period) and in fictional liliput kingdom called Szuflandia (Drawerland), hidden deep in the undergrounds of the Quaternary Research Institute. The movie is a strong and evident allegory of a communistic regime and thus was received very enthusiastically by anti-communist society. Kingsajz in considered to be one of the best Polish comedies and also one of the most important and socially significant pictures of the '80s. It... MORE
Kingsajz is a 1987 cult Polish comedy fantasy film directed by very popular director - Juliusz Machulski. The action takes place in contemporary Poland (late communistic period) and in fictional liliput kingdom called Szuflandia (Drawerland), hidden deep in the undergrounds of the Quaternary Research Institute. The movie is a strong and evident allegory of a communistic regime and thus was received very enthusiastically by anti-communist society. Kingsajz in considered to be one of the best Polish comedies and also one of the most important and socially significant pictures of the '80s. It is also noticed as unreachable ever since in Polish cinema example of using an highly oversized props and sets, supervised by production designer Janusz Sosnowski, made to capture a difference of size between liliputs and used by them things from Kingsajz world. Drawerland sets has been bulid in Łódź Studio soundstages as wall-to-wall set-construction. Some scenes were optically enhanced by a matte painting, made by artists from Barrandov Studios.
Name of the film, "Kingsajz", is actually "King Size" with spelling altered so, that it would be pronounced correctly in Polish. Such alteration of LESS
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