Is The Getaway King Based on a True Story? Is Zdzislaw Najmrodzki a Real Polish Thie

Polish director Mateusz Rakowicz directed the Polish-original comedy crime thriller ‘The Getaway King’ (originally ‘Najmro: Kocha, kradnie, szanuje’). The movie presents a comprehensive take on the life of its protagonist, Zdzislaw Najmrodzki, a famed criminal and embezzler who is also something of a folk hero in his country. People know him for his innovative jailbreaks, and the police think of him as a vermin in a socialist utopia.





Najmrodzki’s first infringement was at the age of twenty when he battered a police officer in a pub near Żyrardów in Central Poland. Although earning himself a sentence of one and half years, “the Getaway King” managed to escape the police after a few weeks of imprisonment when he was being moved to Warsaw for trial.

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