''Botoks'' is a 2017 Polish

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directed by Patryk Vega. It stars

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, Agnieszka Dygant, Katarzyna Warnke and Marieta Żukowska. It was shot in

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and

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. The title literally means "

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" in

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Cast

as Daniela * Agnieszka Dygant as Beata Winkler * Katarzyna Warnke as Magda * Marieta Żukowska as Patrycja Banach *

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as Ordynator oddziału * Sebastian Fabijański as Marek * Piotr Stramowski as Michał * Tomasz Oświeciński as Darek *

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* Wojciech Machnicki *Michał Kula * Jan Fabiańczyk * Katarzyna Czapla * Marek Krupiński * Krzysztof Gojdź

Reception

Box office

The film had the second best opening for a Polish film in 30 years (after Vega's previous film ''Pitbull: Dangerous women''), with 711,906 admissions in its opening weekend in Poland. It totaled 2.31 million admissions (with average admission cost at €4.2) in 2017, the second highest of the year in Poland after ''Letters to Santa 3''. In the United Kingdom, it was the third highest-grossing foreign-language film of 2017, as well as the most successful Polish film of all time in the UK, earning £1.06 million at the box office. Despite its

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success, the film got nine "

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References

External links

* *''Botoks'' on

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