The Promised Land (1975)

Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Written by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont and Andrzej Wajda
Starring Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak and Andrzej Seweryn

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.

Released

1975

Running time

2 hours 59 minutes