Growing up in Soviet-era and sparsely populated Opole, Poland, actress Karolina Wydra recalls a childhood of paucity when it came to recreation: There simply wasn’t much to do in her small village — except on the monthly occasions residents would gather to watch bootleg videos of American imports, which were pirated by samaritans recording theatrical screens with handheld cameras. Particularly impressionable to her at the time were Dirty Dancing (spurring her to take ballroom dancing lessons) and Prince’s Purple Rain — both projected on a simple white sheet in a makeshift viewing room.
“Everything was very controlled and theater — there wasn’t much of…