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The Promised Land
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.
1975 · Directed by Andrzej Wajda · 179 min · Drama · History · 10 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda
- Cinematography: Edward Kłosiński, Witold Sobociński, Wacław Dybowski
- Edited by: Halina Prugar-Ketling, Zofia Dwornik
- Music: Wojciech Kilar
- Production design: Tadeusz Kosarewicz
Cast
- Daniel Olbrychski as Karol Borowiecki
- Wojciech Pszoniak as Moryc Welt
- Andrzej Seweryn as Maks Baum
- Kalina Jędrusik as Lucy Zuckerowa
- Anna Nehrebecka as Anka
- Bożena Dykiel as Mada Müller
- Andrzej Szalawski as Herman Bucholz
- Stanisław Igar as Grünspan
- Franciszek Pieczka as Müller
- Kazimierz Opaliński as Maks' Father
Production
- Country: Poland
- Language: Yiddish, Russian, German, Polish, Latin
- Studios: Zespół Filmowy "X"
- Themes: factory worker, adultery, capitalist, factory, friendship, man vs machine, fire, husband wife relationship, cheating, capitalism
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