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Bartłomiej Topa (Jan Paweł), Katarzyna Herman (Zofia), Dobromir Dymecki (Bogdan) and Andrzej Kłak (Andrzej duh) were all chosen without audition. Maciej Buchwald (the director) has already worked with Dobromir and knew Katarzyna and Andrzej well enough, but Bartłomiej he only met on some film festival in Koszalin some years back. So, every time he had a talk panel with someone on that festival he recorded a short scene. With Bartłomiej he did a scene where he started a rhyme except Bartłomiej was supposed to finish it as if he was completely clueless and didn't understand the game. Buchwald then noticed how Barłomiej is able to keep he's poker face when playing someone close-minded. If i translate an example rhyme it won't rhyme anymore but here's the dialogue:

-Studiował w Katowicach, studiował w Łodzi, dobre filmy robią ludzie...

-Utalentowani

translation:

- He studied in Katowice, he studied in Łódź, good movies make ... people

- Talented

So a rhyme wolud be młodzi (young) for example, maybe doesn't make that much sense in english, but what's important here is that Bartłomiej Topa got chosen because of a skit

Another thing is all of the inventions in the show that probably didn't exist in the 1600s. The crew made sure that even if it didn't exist it was possible to make it at the time and all the materials were available. Example: Jadwiga's "lighter"

Above the door of Angela's room there's a symbol of enlightenment

Henryk Lubopolski's costume has a pattern made of his initials based ofc on Luis Vuitton symbol

^ this guy's, the merchant fam's and Zofia's coustumes were in most part made by Tomasz Ossoliński (there's some lore on his Instagram)

For example the lace of Zofia's collar was made in a small town (Bobowa) near Kraków. Their lace making tradinions start at the times of queen Bona Sforza (XVI century)

Each Zofia's dress took 2 weeks to make

The main costume designer was Katarzyna Lewińska, she also designed costumes for the "Chłopi" (Peasants) movie

One of the scenographers was bored so he built that outdoor toilet outside of the inn

Jan Paweł's training before duel was supposed to be outside, except the whole filmin day it was rainning so the crew built an indoor xvii century gym in an express time

I know some of you don't speak Polish and we can't afford to translate 40-min-long chaotic interviews for you and I'm a bit bored (meaning: my brain wants a break from writing but I'm stubborn and I want to finish it TODAY), so I thought I'd give you a bit of a trivia based on interviews with the actors and the crew of 1670:

throughout all the interviews, no one really asked if we're getting season 2. I mean, someone did and the response was: "Well, we know nothing" but nobody really asked if they had any IDEA about what would happen in the next season

I'm not sure about the actors but the creative and directive levels went to a series of lectures on how people lived in Poland in the XVII century

they received a substantial funding, especially considering the directors were complete "no-names"

filming took 3 months, December through February 2022 if I recall

they all lived in an open-air museum in Kolbuszowa; in fact, almost all of the building were already there, they only had to build the house, the barn and the forge

there was no delay in filming, which is apparently rare in the industry but that was because they had a very tight schedule and couldn't afford staying longer in the museum

the last episode was filmed on one day and that was the last day of filming and because of technical issues with cameras working in the inn (the short shot of Maciej serving the pig to the Adamczewskis' table had to be re-done 20 times!), they had to completely rearrange the wedding party scenes, turning them into long shots; the entire labor/dancing scenes were supposed to be shot from 13 (!) different perspectives and be arranged in a "music video fashion"

one of the first episodes (if not THE first episode) to be filmed was episode 7

the script was written with Bartłomiej Topa (Jan Paweł) in mind, however, the actor wasn't really convinced about participating in this project and took his sweet, sweet time to decide on it; same goes to Dobromir Dymecki (Bogdan). Topa says it wasn't because he didn't find it good - it was because he was afraid that the project would be underfunded and therefore fail as projects like that usually don't get the attention they need in Poland

Bartłomiej Topa said he portrayed Jan Paweł as evil and conniving for the first two weeks of being on the set and the first scene they recorded was the one with the "Adamczycha" sign falling down; only after that time, after one scene in particular (don't remember which one, sorry), he finally saw the true nature of his character and changed his approach to the portrayal

surprisingly, Michał Sikorski (father Jakub), unlike Topa, thought of his character as a silly, innocent man and he changed his mind only after seeing the Aniela-Maciej dance scene where he says Love is peaceful, love is kind, love is... unacceptable - he understood he got to play a villain

the actors were FORBIDDEN to improvise; their lines had to be memorised prior to filming

they shot the barrel-cleaning scene (the thing they do before blowing the magnate's son's head up) for 2h because Bartłomiej Topa and Andrzej Kłak (well, he plays Andrzej) couldn't stop laughing; Topa mentions he doesn't even remember how they managed to get it done

all the mud was brought there ON PURPOSE

Kirył Pietruczuk (Maciej) is a debutante when it comes to film, however, he is the only actor in the crew with an acting degree; not only that - he graduated with honors

when asked about this, Michał Sikorski said: "Well, but it doesn't matter, does it? Because, even thought I haven't graduated, I got to play a nobleman and he... well..." (obv that was A JOKE; he is like the sweetest person ever!)

he also said he wrote a "Maciej's journal" during filming and spent a lot of time creating a backstory for his character; he said it was helping with the a-chronical shooting; he read one of the entries out loud in his interview

he jokingly said his favourite episode is the last one because he got to kiss Martyna (Aniela) there

as mentioned before, casting Maciej's role took the longest. They interviewed about 300 candidates and none of them fit. Kirył recalls it was right after he signed a deal with an agency for the first time in his life and he immediately received a call after his first cinema audition and it was 1670, of course! However, he reports that the process was extremely long - he had to go through several stages, each one of them revealing more and more of the script and he wasn't informed it would take that long

The creators said they looked for someone who'd understand the character and his role in the film - as he is the eyes and ears for us, people from XXI century. "He's basically like a viewer of the events, one of us", Kordian Kądziela (director, episodes 5-8) says. It was important he had a good chemistry with Martyna (she was the first and only "Aniela" he had to do short scenes with and the chemistry was immediate) and was able to break the fourth wall properly - he had to have the talent to comment current events with just one look and I personally think he does it perfectly. The actor was also supposed to be "easily likeable by girls"

The first scene they shot together - meaning as Aniela and Maciej - was the dance scene and Kirył says it's his favourite scene in the entire show

Kirył said the scene with the magnate's son was initially very aggressive on his part, however, after speaking to the directors, he decided to tone it down as it was, indeed, not fit for the character to be this angry

they all said, once they got down to it, they had a feeling they were a part of something special

Feel free to add your trivia or correct me if I'm wrong.

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