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They left everything to build a paradise. They found a hell filled with rattlesnakes, hunger, and hatred. In 1854, a group of several hundred Silesians from Płużnica Wielka, Świbia, and Toszka boarded ships to cross the ocean and settle in a place promised to them by one man – Father Leopold Moczygemba. They weren't going for adventure. They were going for freedom, escaping Prussian rigor, poverty, and disease. What they found there, however, was nothing like the promises in the letters. Instead of fertile land – rocks and thorny bushes. Instead of houses – burrows in the ground. Instead of peace – the revolvers of neighbors from nearby Helena and poisonous snakes falling into their soup bowls. In this film, we discover the incredible, yet painful, story of Panna Maria, Texas – the first Polish settlement in America. This is a story about: A grand fraud that caused the settlers to lose their fortunes even before they arrived. The architecture of despair, or how Poles lived in dugouts alongside scorpions. The rebellion against "The Prophet," whom his own people wanted to hang from an oak tree. Silesian cowboys like Peter Kiołbassa and Marcin Mróz, who left their mark on US history. An ironic finale in which the wealth flowing from oil brought a tragic end to the Moczygemba family. This is no ordinary history lesson. It is a Polish Western written by life itself. Sources: Sources: https://czarne.com.pl/katalog/ksiazki... https://reportaz.polskieradio.pl/arty...