Last night as we were picking our daughter up from the babysitter, our member friends who were watching her also had the television on. A Canadian movie from 2007 was playing, entitled "In God's Country." We didn't see the film, but we caught enough to know that it was a version of the Warren Jeffs situation. It depicted a fundamentalist group stationed in Canada. Our member friends said that the movie began with a preface that said that the people depicted in the film were members of the "Mormon cult." (The word cult is almost always tied to devil worship in the Polish language.) I'm not sure if the movie contained the text or if it was the Polish dubbing.

This was a made-for-TV movie and it was Canadian. I doubt it was every screened in Utah, but I'm wondering: 1)Has anyone seen it?, and 2)Does anyone recall if there was that preface?

Also, I believe that if it were shown in the United States, there would definitely be some legal action taken by the Church. As I'm in Poland, and the church membership is significantly weaker (for instance, the friends who were watching our daughter were themselves convinced that it must be true, and they've been members for some 5 years now), as well as fewer and far between. Is anyone aware of who I could contact about this?

There are other similar instances (for one, Peter Weir's Witness is translated as being about the Mormons instead of the Amish, and many of Jason Faller's produced movies, like Pride and Prejudice, has all Mormon references taken from them in the foreign versions — even though I believe Brigham City and Ryan Little's Saints and Soldiers have appeared here with all Mormonisms intact). However, this is the most atrocious example I have yet encountered. With all the press that Mitt Romney received, newspapers here frequently described our church as practicing polygamy. Most Polish people are more convinced now that we practice polygamy than they were when I served my mission seven years ago.