Wiedźmin (The Hexer or The Witcher in English) is a Polish fantasy television series that aired in 2002.

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The Hexer
Wiedźmin
Genre	Fantasy, Action, Drama
Based on	The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
Written by	Michał Szczerbic
Directed by	Marek Brodzki
Starring	Michał Żebrowski Zbigniew Zamachowski Maciej Kozłowski Grażyna Wolszczak
Composer	Grzegorz Ciechowski
Country of origin	Poland
Original language	Polish
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer	Michał Szczerbic
Producers	Lew Rywin Paweł Poppe Sławomir Rogowski
Cinematography	Bogdan Stachurski
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	Heritage Films
Original release
Network	Telewizja Polska
Release	22 September (2002-09-22) – 15 December 2002 (2002-12-15)
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The story is based on the stories of The Witcher fantasy series (The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny collections), by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

The Hexer begins with the childhood of Geralt of Rivia (Michał Żebrowski), who is a traveling monster hunter. Vesemir collected the child while invoking the Law of Surprise. The series then follows him train at Kaer Morhen, develop his abilities, and mutate.^[1]

The series has been described as better than the movie which preceded it, but the poor critical and fan reception of the movie, which was described as a glorified, incoherent trailer for the TV show, was cited as one of the reasons for the series cancellation after 13 episodes.^[2] Sapkowski has also criticized the television adaptation.^[3][4]