Nikodem Skotarczak

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Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak (1954–1998), born in Gdańsk, was a Polish mafioso known for dealing in stolen cars, as well as a businessman and sports sponsor. Movies: His life was loosely fictionalised in Maciej Kawulski's 2022 Netflix film How I Fell in Love with a Gangster, which the director described as supposedly inspired by Skotarczak's life. The film drew largely negative reviews. Ready Steady Cut called it "an utterly ridiculous Goodfellas wannabe", too "overwrought with style and uneven in its storytelling to be taken seriously", while writing for Newonce, Jacek Sobczyński said the 185-minute film "does not know whether it wants to be an action film or a drama". Skotarczak's widow, Edyta Skotarczak, said the filmmakers never contacted her or her children. She called the project "one great blasphemy" that showed her husband in a "negative, humiliating and partially false light", and later sued the filmmakers and Netflix. In 1996, Polish television produced "Kraina złudzeń", a documentary...

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