''Queen'' () is a 2022 Polish

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television

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created by Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson, loosely based on the life of Polish hairdresser Antoni Cierplikowski. It was released on

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on 23 June 2022.

Premise

A Polish tailor and

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living in

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returns to his hometown in

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany. It is the western part of the region of Silesia. Its largest city is Wrocław. The first ...

to make amends with his daughter.

Cast

Andrzej Seweryn Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (Polish pronunciation: ; born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and Theatre director, director. Regarded as one of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France, and Germa ...

as Sylwester Borkowski/Loretta * Maria Peszek as Wioletta Nowak * Julia Chętnicka as Izabela Nowak * Piotr Witkowski as Bruno Adamski * Kova Réa as Corentin * Paweł Koślik as Ziutek * Henryk Niebudek as Patryk Adamski * Paweł Prokopczuk as Sebastian Adamski * Łukasz Gawroński as Darek Adamski * Wiktoria Kruszczyńska as Baska * Grzegorz Czerepak as Marcel * Paweł Niczewski as Józef * Wojciech Andrzejuk as Morus * Jan Wojtynski as Gacek * Filip Budweil as Zdzisław * Justyna Ducka as Renata *

Antoni Porowski Antoni Janusz Porowski (born March 14, 1984) is a Canadian television personality, cook, actor, model, and author. He is the food and wine expert on the Netflix series '' Queer Eye'' (2018–present). Early life Porowski was born in Montreal, Qu ...

as Antoine

Episodes

Production

Polish-Icelandic filmmaker Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson loosely based the series on the life of Antoni Cierplikowski, owner of

Antoine de Paris Antoni Cierplikowski (Polish pronunciation: ; 24 December 1884 – 5 July 1976) was a Polish hairdresser who became the world's first celebrity hairdresser when he opened the salon Antoine de Paris in Paris and became known as Monsieur Antoi ...

. Although Cierplikowski himself was not a drag queen, he was a gay man who had moved from Poland to Paris, became an extremely successful hairdresser, and returned to Poland at the end of his life. Ásgeirsson died in April 2021 before the series had finished production; the series is dedicated to his memory. The series was filmed in

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

and

Nowa Ruda Nowa Ruda (, ) is a town in south-western Poland near the Czech Republic, Czech border, lying on the Włodzica river in the central Sudetes mountain range. it had 22,067 inhabitants. The town is located in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivod ...

in 2021. Exterior shots of a clothing factory in Gryfów Śląski are also featured in the series.

Reception

Reviewing the series' pilot episode, Joel Keller of ''

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'' wrote that "''Queen'' is a gentle but powerful drama about a man who thought he was sure of who he is discovering things about himself at a late age, and being the better for it."

References

External links

*
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' on

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