The Promised Land

Sinopse

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

7.3
1975
Released
2h 59m

Daniel Olbrychski

Wojciech Pszoniak

Andrzej Seweryn

Kalina Jędrusik

Anna Nehrebecka

Bożena Dykiel

Andrzej Szalawski

Stanisław Igar

Franciszek Pieczka

Kazimierz Opaliński

Andrzej Łapicki

Wojciech Siemion

Tadeusz Białoszczyński

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Jerzy Nowak

Piotr Fronczewski

Jerzy Zelnik

Maciej Góraj

Grażyna Michalska

Włodzimierz Boruński

Danuta Wodyńska

Marian Glinka

Jadwiga Andrzejewska

Aleksander Dzwonkowski

Kazimierz Wichniarz

Zdzisław Kuźniar

Halina Gryglaszewska

Jerzy Obłamski

Marek Walczewski

Lidia Korsakówna

Emilia Krakowska

Bernard Ładysz

Bogusław Sochnacki

Bohdana Majda

Kazimierz Kaczor

Teodor Gendera

Jerzy Przybylski

Jan Paweł Kruk

Mateusz, Borowiecki's Servant

Alicja Sobieraj

Krzysztof Majchrzak

Janina Grzegorczyk

Ryszard Bromowicz

Witold Dederko

Tomasz Lengren

Jerzy Braszka

Engineer (uncredited)

Antoni Byszewski

Coachman (uncredited)

Mariola Kukuła

Maks' Lover (uncredited)

Jerzy Stasiuk

Theatre Patron (uncredited)

Lena Wilczyńska

Edelmanowa (uncredited)

Zofia Wilczyńska

Grunspanowa (uncredited)

Andrzej Wohl

Clerk (uncredited)

Bolesław Płotnicki

Malinowski (voice) (uncredited)

Status

Released

Original Language

Keywords

#factory worker
#adultery
#capitalist
#factory
#friendship
#man vs machine
#fire
#husband wife relationship
#cheating
#capitalism
#lodz
#bankrupt
#fire brigade
#profit
#pole
#textile industry
#period of promoterism
#inhumanity
#teacher
#revenge
#arsonist
#humanity

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Reviews

@badelf8 days ago

Andrzej Wajda's "The Promised Land" is quite fascinating and eminently watchable. The period imagery is superb, capturing late 19th century industrial Łódź with visceral authenticity. From the opening shots of choking black smoke enveloping the city, Wajda establishes the visual language of a world consumed by industrial greed. The narrative grows progressively darker and more cutthroat, following