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One Billion Happy People -- 1990 s Rural Post-Communist Poland. Four villagers with Casio-tones
sing tacky Euro-disco songs about spotted pants & the like. Their fans
smile, dance, get drunk, & fight . . . & buy their records: 16 million
of them. Bayer Full become the most successful Polish artists ever.
2010 Shanghai. Krzysztof Darewicz, maverick Polish expat, phones
Slawek Swierzynski, farmer & leader of the long-forgotten band, with a
little plan :
You will reform & play concerts in China. And, you will sing & record
a new album - in Chinese. Simple .
But, in formal talks with the Chinese, Swierzynski makes one cultural
gaffe after another - a Chinese Lost in Translation this most
certainly is. But, unlike Bill Murray, Swierzynski is laughing.
Darewicz is not.
As the band struggle with the Chinese lyrics, Swierzynski s fearsome
ego awakens & he begins to act of his own volition.
(Swierzynski) seems to forget that this was not & will not be
possible without me .
As reports of a 67 million CD recording contract filter through to
the feverish media, Darewicz continues bitterly:
It s possible your film will be about how Bayer Full didn t go to
China & fooled the entire Polish nation .