The Promised Land
Ziemia obiecana
1975, Film, 179 min, Drama, Polish, Poland, MoviePedia score 71
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.
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Cast
- Daniel Olbrychski as Karol Borowiecki
- Wojciech Pszoniak as Moryc Welt
- Andrzej Seweryn as Maks Baum
- Anna Nehrebecka as Anka Kurowska
- Tadeusz Bialoszczynski as Ojciec Karola - Karol's Father
- Bozena Dykiel as Mada Müller
- Franciszek Pieczka as Müller
- Danuta Wodynska as Müllerowa
- Marian Glinka as Wilhelm Müller
- Andrzej Szalawski as Herman Bucholz
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