Urszula Biel’s book is a continuation of her first monograph on the cinema industry of the Silesian Voivodeship in the years 1918–1939. The current research area is the Upper Silesian province, i.e. the part of the region that fell to Germany after World War I. Today this area is called Opole Silesia, but at the time it also included Gliwice, Bytom and Zabrze. We examine…