
Tomasz has delivered a remarkable performance throughout.Īctors Antoni Królikowski as Komo and Agnieszka Grochowska as Milena play key roles in the gangster’s life. You take some time to accept that the man on screen is still Tomasz as him. When the gangster comes out of jail, he is a completely new person – physically and mentally. In the second half, Nikoś has to spend some time in the prison. He is irresistible to women and intimidating to his enemies.

Tomasz is charming, funny and confident as Nikoś. The choice of songs is amazing, whether it’s Big in Japan or Kishore Kumar’s Ae Oh Aa Zara Mudke.Īctor Tomasz Wlosok has owned the character of Nikodem ‘Nikoś’ Skotarczak in the Polish film How I Fell in Love With a Gangster on Netflix. There are many songs used in the Polish gangster drama. That only proves how “happening” the gangster made his life with his illicit activities. It is hilarious that the narrative feels fast when the film is 3 hours long. The narrative is light and easy to grasp despite moving quite fast. You are more engrossed in watching his gangster side where he steals cars, makes them look new and makes loads of money out of it. But his relationships are rushed, and there’s little passion with every woman he dates. The title is ‘How I Fell in Love With a Gangster’. Similarly, they take no time to show the multiple affairs and women he dated in his life. The director and writer waste no time to introduce us to Nikoś and how he became the king or the tiger, as he calls himself. It happens suddenly, and the characters, for the most part, have amusing things to say.Īlso Read: This is Us Season 6 Episode 2 Recap: One Giant Leap and Awkward Meal His characters(except Nikoś) break the fourth fall. Director Maciej decided to change our perceptions of a gangster drama. The downfall had a hard impact on everyone around him.įilms or shows about gangsters usually have a serious tone with lots of violence. From the 1960s until the 1980s, the film depicts the rise and fall of the gangster. From his first wife to his multiple affairs and relationships, Krzysztof Gureczny and Maciej Kawulski give us a peek into his “happening love life”.

He had a reputation for being a big player among ladies. As his friend Fomo says that the gangster always had girls around him. Nikoś was rapidly successful, having amassed a large fortune, built a vehicle empire, and was also the best in the market. Eventually, he started making a fortune by stealing cars from Germany and importing them to Poland. For quite some time, Nikoś made a reputation as the best in making money with exchange currency. He witnesses a man earn money by deceiving people by exchanging currency. In the 3 hours of Netflix film How I Fell in Love With a Gangster, we see how the strict upbringing pushes young Nikoś to take a wrong path to earn money. She doesn’t agree that her former lover was a gangster. The older woman was one of the many women with whom Nikoś had an affair. The scene cuts and we see a young male journalist talking to a mysterious older woman. The camera focuses on her as she struggles, and the song ‘Big in Japan’ plays in the background. The film starts with a young woman in a bathtub with the water turning red due to blood.

The synopsis reads, “A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem “Nikos” Skotarczak, who went from shady money changer to one of the biggest gangsters in Poland.” Netflix Film How I Fell in Love with a Gangster Review Contains No Spoilers The film is 3 hours long and has English subtitles. The film stars Tomasz Wlosok as Nikodem ‘Nikoś’ Skotarczak, Antoni Królikowski as Komo, and Agnieszka Grochowska as Milena along with Magdalena Lamparska Krystyna Janda, Klaudiusz Kaufmann, Eryk Lubos and Sebastian Fabijanski. Based on the life of Poland’s one of the biggest gangsters Nikodem ‘Nikoś’ Skotarczak, it is written by Krzysztof Gureczny and Maciej Kawulski and directed by Maciej. How I Fell in Love With a Gangster aka Jak pokochałam gangstera is the latest Polish gangster drama.
