Superbohater PRL-u na przykładzie filmu Andrzeja Kondratiuka „Hydrozagadka”

In my essay I try to depict – on the basis of Andrzej Kondratiuk’s movie Hydrozagadka – how superheroes from Polish People’s Republic were embodying the ideal vision of the proper civilian which was advocated by the communistic system, and what were the differences between them and their Western analogues, like Superman or Batman. First of all, the order they guarded and tried to maintain was presented by propagandist agendas as a total antithesis of the Western world – full of consumption, deprivation, and a source of all imaginable evil. Though, Hydrozagadka was not only a grotesque parody of American superheroes’ productions but also a mocking critique of communistic reality.