About Rojst (The Mire)
Rojst, released internationally as The Mire, is a Polish-language crime thriller set in and around a fictional provincial town near a vast wetland. The first season unfolds in 1984, when the bodies of a sex worker and a young man are found in the marshes. Two journalists at the local newspaper are drawn into the case: the older, war-scarred Witold Wanycz and the younger, idealistic Piotr Zarzycki, whose investigation threatens to expose buried secrets among the town's authorities.
The series uses each season to revisit the same setting at a different historical moment, charting Poland's transformation from the era of martial law into the post-communist 1990s. The second season, The Mire '97, jumps to 1997 and the catastrophic flooding of the region, while the third, The Mire: Millennium, moves to 1999 on the eve of the new century. Across the timeline the journalists keep uncovering crimes that intertwine personal tragedy with corruption and the long shadow of the past.
Created and directed by Jan Holoubek, Rojst earned attention for its moody atmosphere, period detail and the pairing of veteran actor Andrzej Seweryn with Dawid Ogrodnik. It premiered on the Showmax platform in 2018 before reaching a worldwide audience on Netflix, where its later seasons debuted, helping establish it as one of the better-known Polish prestige dramas of its era.
