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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promised_Land
The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana) is a film made in 1975 by the Polish film
director Andrzej Wajda, based on a novel by the writer Władysław Reymont.
The Promised Land tells the story of a Pole,
a German, and a Jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19th
century capitalism.
Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski), a Polish nobelman, is the managing
engineer at the Bucholz textile factory. He plans to set up his own factory with
the help of his friends Max Baum (Andrzej Seweryn), a German and heir to an old
handloom factory, and Moritz Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak), an independent Jewish
businessman. Borowiecki's affair with Lucy Zucker (Kalina Jedrusik), wife of
another textile magnate, gives him advance notice of a change in cotton tariffs
and helps Welt to make a killing on the Hamburg futures market. But more money
has to be found, so all three characters cast aside their pride to raise the
necessary capital.
On the day of the factory opening, Borowiecki has to deny his affair with
Zucker's wife to a jealous husband. But while Borowiecki accompanies Lucy on her
exile to Berlin, Zucker apparently takes his revenge by burning down the three
partners' uninsured factory.
In Wajda's film, Borowiecki, the Pole, remains the most vicious and destructive
character until the very end. According to Wajda, his inhuman attitude was due
to circumstances: Borowiecki, being the least wealthy, had to be particularly
ruthless in order to achieve success.
Wajda presents a shocking image of the city, with its dirty and dangerous
factories and ostentatiously opulent residences devoid of taste and culture. The
film follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens, Émile Zola and Maxim Gorky, as
well as German expressionists such as Knopf, Meidner and Grosz, who gave
testimony of social protest.
The film was adapted from Władysław Reymont's 1899 novel The Promised Land, in
which he vividly painted a portrait of the rapid industrialization of Łódź and
its cruel effects on workers and mill owners. "For that land people were born.
And it sucked everything in, crushed it in its powerful jaws, and chewed people
and objects, the sky and the earth, in return giving useless millions to a
handful of people, and hunger and hardship to the whole throng," he wrote.
Cast
Daniel Olbrychski as Karol Borowiecki
Wojciech Pszoniak as Moryc Welt
Andrzej Seweryn as Maks Baum
Kalina Jedrusik as Lucy Zuckerowa
Anna Nehrebecka as Anka
Bozena Dykiel as Mada Müller
Andrzej Szalawski as Herman Bucholz
Stanislaw Igar as Grünspan
Franciszek Pieczka as Müller
Kazimierz Opalinski as Maks' Father
Andrzej Lapicki as Trawinski
Wojciech Siemion as Wilczek
Tadeusz Bialoszczynski as Karol's Father
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as Kessler
Jerzy Nowak as Zucker
Piotr Fronczewski as Horn
Jerzy Zelnik as Stein
Maciej Góraj as Adam Malinowski
Grazyna Michalska as Zoska Malinowska
Wlodzimierz Borunski as Halpern
Danuta Wodynska as Müllerowa
Marian Glinka as Wilhelm Müller
Jadwiga Andrzejewska as Bucholzowa
Aleksander Dzwonkowski as Zajaczkowski
Zdzislaw Kuzniar as Kaczmarek
Halina Gryglaszewska as Malinowska
Jerzy Oblamski as Malinowski
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promised_Land
The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana) is a film made in 1975 by the Polish film
director Andrzej Wajda, based on a novel by the writer Władysław Reymont.
The Promised Land tells the story of a Pole,
a German, and a Jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19th
century capitalism.
Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski), a Polish nobelman, is the managing
engineer at the Bucholz textile factory. He plans to set up his own factory with
the help of his friends Max Baum (Andrzej Seweryn), a German and heir to an old
handloom factory, and Moritz Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak), an independent Jewish
businessman. Borowiecki's affair with Lucy Zucker (Kalina Jedrusik), wife of
another textile magnate, gives him advance notice of a change in cotton tariffs
and helps Welt to make a killing on the Hamburg futures market. But more money
has to be found, so all three characters cast aside their pride to raise the
necessary capital.
On the day of the factory opening, Borowiecki has to deny his affair with
Zucker's wife to a jealous husband. But while Borowiecki accompanies Lucy on her
exile to Berlin, Zucker apparently takes his revenge by burning down the three
partners' uninsured factory.
In Wajda's film, Borowiecki, the Pole, remains the most vicious and destructive
character until the very end. According to Wajda, his inhuman attitude was due
to circumstances: Borowiecki, being the least wealthy, had to be particularly
ruthless in order to achieve success.
Wajda presents a shocking image of the city, with its dirty and dangerous
factories and ostentatiously opulent residences devoid of taste and culture. The
film follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens, Émile Zola and Maxim Gorky, as
well as German expressionists such as Knopf, Meidner and Grosz, who gave
testimony of social protest.
The film was adapted from Władysław Reymont's 1899 novel The Promised Land, in
which he vividly painted a portrait of the rapid industrialization of Łódź and
its cruel effects on workers and mill owners. "For that land people were born.
And it sucked everything in, crushed it in its powerful jaws, and chewed people
and objects, the sky and the earth, in return giving useless millions to a
handful of people, and hunger and hardship to the whole throng," he wrote.
Cast
Daniel Olbrychski as Karol Borowiecki
Wojciech Pszoniak as Moryc Welt
Andrzej Seweryn as Maks Baum
Kalina Jedrusik as Lucy Zuckerowa
Anna Nehrebecka as Anka
Bozena Dykiel as Mada Müller
Andrzej Szalawski as Herman Bucholz
Stanislaw Igar as Grünspan
Franciszek Pieczka as Müller
Kazimierz Opalinski as Maks' Father
Andrzej Lapicki as Trawinski
Wojciech Siemion as Wilczek
Tadeusz Bialoszczynski as Karol's Father
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as Kessler
Jerzy Nowak as Zucker
Piotr Fronczewski as Horn
Jerzy Zelnik as Stein
Maciej Góraj as Adam Malinowski
Grazyna Michalska as Zoska Malinowska
Wlodzimierz Borunski as Halpern
Danuta Wodynska as Müllerowa
Marian Glinka as Wilhelm Müller
Jadwiga Andrzejewska as Bucholzowa
Aleksander Dzwonkowski as Zajaczkowski
Zdzislaw Kuzniar as Kaczmarek
Halina Gryglaszewska as Malinowska
Jerzy Oblamski as Malinowski
