Christmas dinner most Poles spend the day feasting with their family. The Christmas meal is elaborate, served in the evening on 24 December, offering large quantities of food. This Christmas Eve meal is called Wigilia. After the first star appears in the sky, everyone shares the Christmas wafer (opłatek) and wishes good things for the coming year. Then supper begins. The meal is meatless, honouring Catholic tradition. Many households also prepare a great variety of special Christmas dishes, typically numbering 12 in honor of the 12 apostles. Dishes include: stuffed carp, fried carp, herring in wine sauce, herring in cream sauce, fruit
A Christmas Eve the vein of Tinto Brass' re-imagining of Boito's "Senso") premiered on October 13, 2012 at the PollyGrind Film Festival. A Christmas Eve "A Christmas Eve" is a short story by Camillo Boito which appeared in his anthology of decadence and perversity titled "Tales of Vanity" (sometimes translated as "Vain Tales"), which also featured his more famous work, the novella "Senso". The story deals with a young man who is sexually obsessed with his recently deceased twin sister. Deeply depressed on Christmas Eve, he picks up a prostitute that bears a striking similarity to his dead sibling, but spending the night