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Please edit goofs & quotes


AFAIK the dialogue has some simple changes from the reality, FE "tell them go 50" as in real was not 50, but 100.
If someone was heroic enough to watch this masterpiece, please edit quotes (or maybe goofs?!) adding real events from voice recorders.
This also can be done by confronting screenplay's alternate reality with official report.

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It's not that easy. A true and verified trivia, that "Marian Opania was proposed a role of President Lech Kaczynski, but he declined it sternly, telling, that he was not going to help in creating rubbish assassination theories. He became an object of hate campaign from rightist Internet for that." keeps being rejected by the staff.

Also they rejected: "A release date was scheduled on 15 April 2016, but it was postponed three weeks before that date, officially for technical reasons. Press speculated, that a real reason was, that a brother of a deceased President, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of PiS (Law and Justice) political party, which won elections in Poland, did not like the movie during a special show, and demanded changes."

A verified goof, that "According to the movie, Polish national TV operator, who first filmed a crash site, died in Russia in suspected circumstances, and his film was not shown. In fact, it was Slawomir Wisniewski, who did not die, and moreover, revealed his tape to a public. Other TV operator (TVN television) Krzysztof Knyz indeed died after returning from Russia, but he was already in a Russian hospital during the crash, seriously ill, and obviously did not film anything." is probably rejected as well.

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IMDB has it's restrictions, pray them for that. Maybe there are rules written somewhere. In Opania's news second sentence looks suspicious (but first not!), speculation about release date is, yes, a mere speculation and third? Who knows? Let's try them! Revealing the sources would be helpful, AIS.

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1. since when reality looks suspicious?
2. the first release data was in 2014, the second 10.04.2016, the thing was not ready in 2014, however the second date was called off after the trailer was released. Hundred of thosads people saw the trailer before it was taken off. The actual premiere was heralded by a better, improved trailer, this time with a plastic explosion scene.

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Well, you can read it in interviews with Opania in the net : "Nie mam zamiaru im pomagać w nakreślaniu ich bzdurnych przekonań. To, co oni uznają, czyli że w Smoleńsku doszło do zamachu, jest bzdurą. Nie będę brał udziału w rzeczy, która przypuszczalnie będzie szła w tym kierunku." and even his answer to some journalist: "Odchrzańcie się ode mnie, nie będę grał w głupotach o jakichś zamachach, bo jestem w miarę myślący facet i nie będę się podpisywał pod jakimiś bzdurami."
The first time I sent it, it was rejected because of lack of reliable sources. There is no field in a form to write down sources, so I quoted several www addresses. And the answer was "doesn't meet submission guidelines"...

As for a story of TVP operator, it is a fact, that he is alive, and there was a whole article in "Polityka" and interview with him. Moreover, his footage is used in the movie ;)

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