Krol 2020 Krol is a gangster story set in Warsaw in 1937 It talks about violence, the lust for power and the pursuit of maintaining it at all costs Its a story of the ups and downs of the mafia that used to sow fear and submission in the Polands capital before the outbreak of World War II The main character, a Jewish gangster boxer Jakub Szapiro, is drawn into a political conspiracy and gangster bloodletting that may decide the fate of the nation The series is based on the same titled novel by Szczepan Twardoch