The Plagues of Breslau

The Plagues of Breslau - Trailer
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It's 8:15PM, we've finished watching our movie for the night and it's still light out. Tonight's movie is a Polish Crime Thriller. We listened to it in the original language, presumably Polish, and read the English subtitles. There was a scene at a horse race and another at a motorcycle race, which was pretty cool. There were a couple of scenes that involved people jumping out of the way of a runaway thing and they were pretty bad. Or maybe people are just really bad at detecting approaching danger. They get bowled over left and right. Maybe they got a discount for the large number of falls.

The murders are bizarre and grisly, but nothing worse than what we saw in Game of Thrones.

The movie trots out a bit of history to fit in with current events, but it's fake history, as Diksha Sundriyal at Cinemaholic explains:

Is The Plagues of Breslau Based on a True Story? 

No, ‘The Plagues of Breslau’ is not based on a true story. It is a crime drama, written by Patryk Vega and Sylwia Koperska-Mrozinska. In the film, Magda uses the Week of Plague as the historical reference for the serial killings happening in Wroclaw. She tells the story of Frederick the Great. After taking over Breslau in 1941, he wanted it to become a great city. For this, he needed to weed out all the bad things that would hold back its peace and prosperity. He considered six human fallacies to be the plagues that would never let them grow. 

They were degeneracy, pillaging, corruption, slandering, oppression, and treachery. To show everyone how serious he was considering his plans, he devised the Week of Plagues. Every day, apart from Sunday, one person, who had committed any of these crimes, would be publically executed. Apparently, Magda reads about it in a book of local history. In reality, there is no account of any such practice in the reign of Frederick the Great.

I think Diksha means 1741, not 1941. Frederick the Great died in 1786. He went to war against Austria in 1741. Nine months later they signed the Treaty of Breslau. Breslau is the German name for Wroclaw.

Update May 2023 replaced missing video.