Boża podszewka

("God's Lining") and ("God's Lining. Part Two") are Polish TV series based on the novel with the same title by about the life of petty szlachta in the backwaters of the Vilnius Region. The first part was aired in 15 episodes during 1997–1998 and covered the time period 1900-1945.BOŻA PODSZEWKA @ filmpolski.pl The second part was aired in 16 episodes during 2005-2006 and covered the time period 1945-1948.BOŻA PODSZEWKA. CZĘŚĆ DRUGA @ filmpolski.pl It was the debut work of Izabella Cywińska as film director.Izabella Cywinska

When the airing started, the series caused a considerable controversy across the whole Poland among the people originating from the Kresy region, which the Vilnius Region was part of. They claimed that the series created a distorted, unflattering image of the people from the Vilnius region."Gwałt na tradycji". Serial TVP wywołał ogólnopolski protest

Etymology The Polish expression "Boża podszewka" ("God's lining") is a dismissive reference to an unimportant, disregarded person.Jan Karłowicz, Słownik gwar polskich, vol. 1, 1900, p. 109 In an afterword to one of the editions of the book Lubkiewicz-Urbanowicz wrote that in Vilnius Region the expression referred to the last, unwanted, child. In the book and film, the protagonist Marianna/Maryśka is exactly that: the last of nine children, physically weak, treated by parents worse than her siblings.Tomasz Korpysz, Boża podszewka, Idziemy June 25, 2017

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