How I Became a Gangster. True Story is a subjective chronicle of the rise of the Polish criminal underworld after 1989, told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator — a man who chose the gangster life deliberately, not by accident.

Promoted as a raw and honest deconstruction of the gangster myth, the film captures the chaos of 1990s Poland, where ambition, money, and opportunity fueled the emergence of a new mafia. It is a story about the pursuit of power, the illusion of control, and the inevitable cost of a life built on violence and crime.

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