Czterdziestolatek

Czterdziestolatek
Also known as	40-latek
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz
Directed by	Jerzy Gruza
Starring	Andrzej Kopiczyński, Anna Seniuk, Irena Kwiatkowska
Country of origin	Poland
Original language(s)	Polish
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	21
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Production company(s)	Telewizja Polska (TVP)

Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek (the English translation: a forty-year-old); broadcast in English by TVP Polonia under the title of "Being Forty" is a Polish television comedy series originally broadcast in Poland between 1974 and 1977. The initial series enjoyed so much popularity that it was continued and led to the release of a feature film I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old's Love Affair and a New Year's Eve television program in 1975.

The series was written by Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz and was broadcast on Telewizja Polska. In total, 21 episodes were produced.

The series followed the fate of a Warsaw family and explored topics related to midlife crisis, such as extra-marital affairs, attempts to quit smoking, obsession with hair loss, efforts to maintain physical fitness, pride in achievements and professional life, the desire to seek self-fulfillment through social activities, etc.

20 years later the series was remade in the mid-1990s with a cast that included Joanna Kurowska, Wojciech Mann and Wojciech Malajkat.

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