Liczenie złotówek. Polskie filmy fantastyczno-przygodowe lat 80. w świetle protokołów komisji kolaudacyjnych

The article analyses the evaluation committee’s reports regarding fantasy-and-adventure films in the late period of the Polish People’s Republic. These documents show that the committee members often exhibited helplessness towards these films. They were not aware of the global cinematographic trends to which these titles referred, and they admitted that they simply did not like such films. Despite this, they rated them highly and wanted to release them into theatres as soon as possible, because they thought such films could help to end the financial crisis in cinematography. I analyse these reports as a document illustrating the change in the awareness of the evaluators. Not interested in political control, they applied mechanisms straight from market reality to the films they watched. Discussions about films took place in terms of implementing liberalizing economic and cinematographic reforms. These discussions included production strategies taken straight from Hollywood studios, because decision-makers were primarily interested in reducing the financial risk associated with the films. Socialist ideology lost out to economic rationality.