Czterdziestolatek po czterdziestu latach: : obraz epoki lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku czy inteligencki głos w sporze o przyszły kształt polskiego pola władzy?

The article is an attempt at a fairly detailed analysis of TV series "A Forty-Year-Old " in its first edition from the 1970s. The text proposes an interpretation of the film from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's theory, and in particular reconstructs the social space of the film's protagonists, which consists of, in particular, the intelligentsia elite, the nomenklatura, lower intelligentsia and medium technical personnel. In the picture outlined by the authors of the film, the role of the intelligentsia, in particular its multi-generation, old elite, is dominant. This vision does not fully agree with the real place of the intelligentsia in Poland of the Gierek era. For this reason the film is interpreted by the authors of the article as a voice of the scriptwriters in favor of the appreciation of the intelligentsia, both in respect of the lower technical staff and the part of the nomenclature less rich in cultural capital. The interpretative framework proposed in the text seems useful for the analysis of other works of art in relation to the reconstruction of social relations of the times when they were created