Good film, i had a Polish boyfriend in 1985 and was often in Poland in these years (I was living in West Berlin). I was in about the same age as the main characters in the film, so i can heavily relate to the setting, time and people. The brownish dark. Coloring of the film is exactly how i remember these days in Poland. The cloth and fashion are also very accurate. While in the West, moustaches were in 1985 pretty much uncool, in Poland everybody was wearing them. The story is in the first half sometimes a bit slow, but in the second half of the film i really got into it. The acting is very good. The film clearly shows how complicated gay life was in Poland. However, homosexuality was not forbidden. Lists of gay people held by the police were in the West common too. The story of a sex tape with important people on it, could be a story in any western country too.
Review of Operation Hyacinth
