Director: Wojciech Adamczyk
Writer: Robert Brutter, Jerzy Niemczuk
Production: Studio A
Airs on: Polish Television
Starring: Ilona Ostrowska (Lucy), Cezary Żak (Kozioł), Paweł Królikowski (Kusy), Marta Lipińska (Michałowa), Artur Barciś (Czerepach), Franciszek Pieczka (Jan Japycz), Piotr Pręgowski (Pietrek), Sylwester Maciejewski (Solejuk), Bogdan Kalus (Hadziuk), Katarzyna Żak (Solejukowa), Viola Arlak
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Ranczo (The Ranch) is a record-breaking Polish drama and comedy series which has aired on TVP1 since March 5, 2006.
Lucy Wilska, an American of Polish extraction, inherits a 100-year-old dilapidated manor house in the small village of Wilkowyje. This gives her a reason to visit Poland, which she has been putting off since childhood. As her brief marriage has just broken up and her job has proven a disappointment, Lucy is in no hurry to come back across the Atlantic. She wants to pause, take stock and ponder where her life is headed. But when she arrives in the village, instead of selling the house straight off to the only interested buyer – the borough leader – and heading back to America, she decides to stay the night to give herself some time to think. The village is out in the boondocks, the house down-at-heel and the locals monosyllabic, but the place exerts a strange pull on the American. She decides to stay. Lucy’s settling down in Wilkowyje is not only a social fact, but it marks an upheaval in the life of the small community. Lucy is not a passive bystander; if anything, she is overactive, a feature that in a Polish rural community is rather uncommon. A series of episodes follow in which Lucy gradually notices that things are not always to her liking and takes a stand.
Lucy’s arrival in the village has some major emotional consequences in the romantic, social and civic spheres. Nobody and (almost) nothing will be the same again.
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