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| Director: | Jan Holoubek |
| Country: | Poland |
| Language: | Polish |
| Num Seasons: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 17 |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
The Mire (Polish: Rojst) is a Polish-language thriller television series starring Dawid Ogrodnik, Andrzej Seweryn, Magdalena Różczka, and Zofia Wichłacz.[1] [2]
The Mire was broadcast on the Showmax online platform from August 19, 2018 to September 14, 2018 and from December 21, 2019, it is available internationally on Netflix. The second series, titled The Mire '97 (Polish: Rojst '97), was made available in its entirety on Netflix on July 7, 2021. The complete third and final series was released on February 28, 2024, under the title The Mire: Millennium (Polish: Rojst Millenium).
The series takes place in a fictional, nameless provincial town in western Poland. The original name “Rojst” describes special wetlands or mire – certain swamps that are deep and very wet. Not only are the landscapes around the provincial town in the series of this kind, but also the grey reality of the people and the system in which they live resembles a swamp from which they can not escape.
Poland is going through one of its darkest times after World War II. It is 1984, shortly after the end of martial law. In the province, a double murder in the Gronty forest shocks people: a young prostitute and a local Communist party official were brutally killed. At the same time, two teenagers commit a mysterious suicide. Two journalists from the Kurier, a regional newspaper begin to investigate unofficially: the experienced Witold Wanycz (Andrzej Seweryn) and the young Piotr Zarzycki (Dawid Ogrodnik), who recently moved to the city from Kraków with his pregnant wife (Zofia Wichłacz). A web of dubious connections between crime, administration, justice, and politics soon emerges.
More than a decade after the events of the first series, southwestern Poland is hit by a "millennium flood" in the summer of 1997. A flood dam breaks, flooding part of the city and releasing human remains in the Gronty forest. They are evidence of an unspeakable horror that took place over 50 years ago and in which the young Witold Wanycz was also involved. But the fresh corpse of a teenager also appears among the old bones. Corporal Anna Jass (Magdalena Różczka), temporarily transferred from Warsaw to the provinces, investigates his death with senior sergeant Adam Mika (Łukasz Simlat). Meanwhile, Piotr Zarzycki returns to town to take over the post of editor-in-chief of the local newspaper.
Fall 1999. On the eve of his retirement, Senior Sergeant Adam Mika (Łukasz Simlat) tries to solve the case of a Roma girl, an alleged kidnapping victim. Meanwhile, his old friend, Sergeant Anna Jass (Magdalena Różczka), comes back to town and is taken to a local hospital after a failed police operation that ended in a shooting. Thanks to her Roma origin, Jass establishes contact with the injured party and gets involved in the case. In the meantime, Wanda, the daughter of Kurier editor Piotr Zarzycki (Dawid Ogrodnik), goes missing. Tormented by remorse over the death of Wanda's mother, Sergeant Jass decides to help find the missing woman. On his birthday, the manager of the Centrum Hotel (Piotr Fronczewski / Filip Pławiak) is murdered. In the background of his tragic death there is the case of a mysterious letter from 30 years ago addressed to editor Wanycz (Andrzej Seweryn) and the story of the manager's son, who is looking for a mysterious newcomer, Stefan Jassijej (Janusz Gajos / Tomasz Schuchardt). The body of a young Polish woman is found during excavations in the Gronty forest. Despite evidence that the woman died in the 1960s, the local prosecutor's office publicized the case by presenting her as a victim of Nazi crimes. Assessor Kinga Matwiejska (Marianna Gierszewska) and sergeant Małecki (Michał Pawlik) conduct their own investigation into this case.