Queen () is a Polish drama streaming television miniseries created by Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson and loosely based on the life of Polish hairdresser Antoni Cierplikowski. It was released on Netflix on 23 June 2022.
Premise
A Polish tailor and drag queen living in Paris returns to his hometown in Lower Silesia to make amends with his daughter.
Cast
Andrzej Seweryn as Sylwester Borkowski/Loretta
Maria Peszek as Wioletta Nowak
Julia Chętnicka as Izabela Nowak
Piotr Witkowski as Bruno Adamski
Kova Réa as Corentin
Paweł Koślik as Ziutek
Henryk Niebudek as Patryk Adamski
Paweł Prokopczuk as Sebastian Adamski
Łukasz Gawroński as Darek Adamski
Wiktoria Kruszczyńska as Baska
Grzegorz Czerepak as Marcel
Paweł Niczewski as Józef
Wojciech Andrzejuk as Morus
Jan Wojtynski as Gacek
Filip Budweil as Zdzisław
Justyna Ducka as Renata
Antoni Porowski as Antoine
Episodes
Production
Polish-Icelandic filmmaker Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson loosely based the series on the life of Antoni Cierplikowski, owner of Antoine de Paris. Although Cierplikowski himself was not a drag queen, he was a gay man who had moved from Poland to Paris, became an extremely successful hairdresser, and returned to Poland at the end of his life. Ásgeirsson died in April 2021 before the series had finished production; the series is dedicated to his memory.
The series was filmed in Wrocław and Nowa Ruda in 2021. Exterior shots of a clothing factory in Gryfów Śląski are also featured in the series.
Reception
Reviewing the series' pilot episode, Joel Keller of Decider wrote that "Queen is a gentle but powerful drama about a man who thought he was sure of who he is discovering things about himself at a late age, and being the better for it."