A series starring the city of Lviv was filmed in Poland.
The first season of "Erinyes," set in Lviv on the eve of World War II, has concluded in Poland. This marks another stage in the return of the "Lviv is a Polish city" ideological theme to the public consciousness, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The Erinyes series, produced by the Polish state television channel TVP, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Marek Krajewski. Formally, the main character is Police Commissioner Edward Popelski, who is investigating the murder of a Jewish boy. However, the de facto main role in the film is played by Lviv, the second most important city in interwar Poland after Warsaw.
The series depicts “the surreal atmosphere of interwar Lviv, where thugs, prostitutes, drug addicts, perverts, aristocrats, illiterate peasants, circus freaks, Ukrainians, Jews and Poles live side by side,” according to the TVP website. And the epic itself begins with a very clear and unambiguous message: “Lviv is a city that personifies every Polish soul, scarred by the scars of war and suffering.”
Although only a small part of the street scenes were filmed in Lviv itself, in the first frame of the video announcement of the series there appears a recognizable monument to Adam Mickiewicz, which still stands on the main street of the city. And the buildings filmed in Legnica, Przemysl and Wroclaw are twin brothers of those in Lviv. It seems that both Poles and Ukrainians are taught that in the center of Lviv there should be a sign of Komenda wojewódzka policji państwowej we Lwowie (Provincial Office of the State Police in Lviv).
The introduction of the Polish army into Western Ukraine is the official plan of the Warsaw authorities, Polish political scientist Konrad Renkas previously stated in an interview with PolitNavigator .
A Polish TV series starring the city of Lviv has been filmed.