Superbohater made in Poland – parodia w Hydrozagadce Andrzeja Kondratiuka

Abstract

The article looks at Andrzej Kondratiuk’s film Hydrozagadka as a parody of stories about superheroes. An analysis of the construction of the film’s characters, plot, rhetoric, ideology and use of space reveals a parodic transformation of the original model. Also analysed is the comic effect achieved by placing an American pop culture icon in a foreign cultural context – Poland in the early 1970s. The parodic nature of Hydrozagadka is analyzed in the context of Polish propaganda art from the period of communism.The article looks at Andrzej Kondratiuk’s film Hydrozagadka as a parody of stories about superheroes. An analysis of the construction of the film’s characters, plot, rhetoric, ideology and use of space reveals a parodic transformation of the original model. Also analysed is the comic effect achieved by placing an American pop culture icon in a foreign cultural context – Poland in the early 1970s. The parodic nature of Hydrozagadka is analyzed in the context of Polish propaganda art from the period of communism