Prime Time

Prime Time is a 2021 Polish drama thriller film directed by Jakub Piątek and written with Łukasz Czapski in his directorial debut.^[2] The film stars Bartosz Bielenia, Magdalena Popławska, Andrzej Kłak, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Dobromir Dymecki and Monika Frajczyk.Prime Time 2021.

The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021.The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section.After roiling a Polish village as an impostor priest in Oscar-nominated “Corpus Christi,” star Bartosz Bielenia tries to rattle the entire nation in “Prime Time.” His character here is another malcontent, this one armed and ready to take over a TV studio on New Year’s Eve with a special message for the world. But he’s a bit too literally a rebel without a cause: We never discover just what this protagonist’s protesting gripe is. That lack makes director Jakub Piatek and co-writer Lukasz Czapski’s first feature a familiar hostage drama whose anticipated narrative raison d’etre is strangely MIA. The slick, watchable but ultimately somewhat pointless results, which premiered at Sundance six months ago, launch worldwide on Netflix June 30.

It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 at a Krakow network affiliate, and despite the Y2K fears glimpsed on other stations’ broadcasts, just another night’s labor for the staff here. That includes longtime resident “personality” Mira (Magdalena Poplawska), who shows up just moments before she’s scheduled on-air — late enough that an emergency replacement has already been found, though she’s unapologetic as she elbows that younger woman aside. But just when Mira is announcing what lucky viewer will win a car in “the last call-in contest of this millennium,” the show gets rudely interrupted as Sebastian (Bielenia) invades the set, already holding security guard Grzegorz (Andrzej Klak) at gunpoint.

In the ensuing panic, most of the crew flee, and active broadcasting is cut off. Left to deal with the situation are the two nervous hostages, as well as level-headed veteran producer Laura (Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik). She’s soon joined in the control booth above by variably helpful police negotiators (Monika Frajczyk, Cezary Kosinski) who attempt to talk down or at least distract the volatile Sebastian while their superior (Dobromir Dymecki) mulls how to have his SWAT-type team storm the now-barred soundstage

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