THE MAN WHO WOULD BE POLKA KING / THE MAN WHO WOULD BE POLKA KING

USA, 70 min.

From "Polka King" to criminal. This is the journey of Jan "Lewan" Lewandowski who, after his emigration from Poland to the USA in the 60's, took advantage of his musical skills to found the Jan Lewan Orchestra. The band won nationwide fame and the founder soon began to amass his own, private fortune. It soon turned out however that the "Polka King" wasn't particularly talented in managing the illegal side of this windfall and thus the world heard of the greatest financial crime committed in the American Polka Music World.