Polska Wojciecha Adamczyka: Ranczo i Dziewczyny ze Lwowa
Poland as seen by Wojciech Adamczyk Ranczo (The Ranch) and Dziewczyny ze Lwowa (Girls from Lviv)

Summary/Abstract: The Ranczo TV show attracted millions of viewers for over a decade, and has been deemed a wonder both in terms of reception and from the sociological perspective. Through events occurring in a small village in Eastern Poland, the authors: Wojciech Adamczyk, director and Robert Brutter, scriptwriter, showed not only the image of our country, adapted to changes (and more often than not staying ahead of changes), but also shaped it to some extent. In 2015, with the tenth season of Ranczo being inevitably the last, the creators of the show came up with a new production: Dziewczyny ze Lwowa, which showed Poland and Poles in a big city and from the perspective of a foreigner from coming not from the West (as Lucy in Ranczo), but from the East - the Ukraine. The paper is an attempt at comparative analysis of the image of Poland (or rather Poles, as the director himself often stressed) that emerges from the comparison of the two TV shows, integrated with comments on its reception by viewers. The author stresses that the intention of the creators was to overcome social and national stereotypes, and the fairy-tale convention of the shows (Ranczo in particular) does not exclude the references to the Polish reality.

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