One of the operation's victims, Waldemar Zboralski, had been chairman of the gay rights group the Warsaw Homosexual Movement. Set in the period, the drama itself follows the story of a police officer trying to track down a serial killer targeting the gay community.īut in the sinister real-life events launched on the 15th of November 1985, thousands of men were arrested, files created, fingerprints taken and 'confessions' confirming their homosexuality forcibly signed. The shocking story of a secret police operation to track down all gay men in Communist Poland is to be retold in a new Netflix film.ĭue for release next month, the Polish-language Operation Hyacinth is based on a plan of the same name (Akcja Hyacint in Polish) which led to information being collected on at least 11,000 gay men in the 1980s.
