Wartime Girls (Polish: Wojenne dziewczyny) is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP1. It premiered on 5 March 2017 and has five seasons. In 2022, it became available to stream in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and The U.K. on the streaming service Chaiflicks.
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Plot
The series follows the lives of three women, showing them briefly at the outbreak of the war in September 1939 before flashing forward to 1941. Ewa Fronczak is released from her prison sentence for theft on account of the falling bombs; Marysia Joachim and her family are terrorised by anti-semitic Nazi sympathisers; Irena Szczęsna helps the nurses at a hospital with the wounded. Ewa and Irka know each other from before the war; they first meet Marysia after Ewa steals her wallet, including her false identity documents, at a train station. They join the underground resistance movement and are initially appointed to serve in the small sabotage unit.
Cast
Aleksandra Pisula as Marysia Joachim
Vanessa Aleksander as Ewa Fronczak
Marta Mazurek as Irena 'Irka' Szczęsna
Maja Szopa as Karolina 'Nitka' Wegierska
Karolina Rzepa as Kapitan Magda 'Joe' Cukier
Michał Czernecki as Witold Szczęsny
Danuta Stenka as Irka and Witold's mother
Józef Pawłowski as Kamil Brodzki, Irka's fiancé
Kamil Szeptycki as Jurek Bednar
Krzysztof Franieczek as Oskar Dietrich
Katrin Bühring as Margarethe von Losein, Dietrich's sister
Krzysztof Wach as sturmbannführer Kleim
Aleksandra Justa as Henryka Brodzka
Vinzenz Wagner as Franz Hessler
Episodes
Since the 31st of October 2021, there have been 65 episodes (5 seasons) of Wojenne Dziewczyny with 13 episodes per season.
Production
The series was filmed in Łódź, Lublin, Karczew, and Bielsko-Biała.