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      The Promised Land

      1975 2h 18m Drama List
      Reviews 92% Audience Score 500+ Ratings When ambitious Polish aristocrat Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski) decides to open his own textile factory, he recruits two enterprising friends, Jewish businessman Moryc Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak) and German industrial heir Maks Baum (Andrzej Seweryn), to begin the new venture. Unfortunately, Karol's affair with Lucy Zuckerowa (Kalina Jedrusik), the wife of a business rival, threatens to derail the trio's attempts at establishing their own company. Read More Read Less

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      Peter Bradshaw Guardian The satire and intrigue of The Promised Land is leading somewhere very disturbing. Rated: 5/5 Apr 10, 2024 Full Review Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Perhaps when you can best sense Andrzej Wajda's genius is in his ability to be cold and distant when he feels and wants it; a militant witness, or satirical and mocking at times, without losing the thread of the narrative. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 22, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The epic works as an observant and cynical look at Poland's social classes and industrialization. Rated: B+ Feb 4, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Three young friends, a Pole, a German, and a Jew, decide to join forces and open a textile factory. Due to lack of money, they have to cope in various ways, at any cost, using all the means and without regard to social or moral norms, as well as the fate of other people, including those closest to them. The plot takes place in the last years of the XIX century, in the Polish industrial city of Lodz. The realism with which Wajda shows dirty, smoky city, dangerous factories, the brutal capitalist logic and wretched working class in poverty, on the verge of life and death, is worthy of Charles Dickens, Emile Zola or Maxim Gorky. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Probably best Polish film ever. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Pszoniak wspanialy! Lodz wspaniala! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Monotonous and freaky. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member i would always stuck with the mentalilty, its not working with cenima, i knew, cenima is Hormones, cenima is Passions, but i always try to be rational though i realy realy going on with my feeling deeply, its idealistic, yeah thats how we should watch the movies * its a great movie, the camera, Wajda tried hard to put the camera on the faces, to see how they react, how thier emotions produced and pushed out, he was about to inter his character by his camera actually. i loved that. the movie is leftist yeah, its passion, it humanistic, no matter how i reject that losers ideology. Wajda is a real Beauty Creature. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Wajda is an exciting director, seemingly attracted to and impassioned by all matter of human circumstance and experience. He ceaselessly seems to capture the most intimate, most urgent of images with his hand-held cam genius. The Promised Land is an epic conveyance of all of this. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis When ambitious Polish aristocrat Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski) decides to open his own textile factory, he recruits two enterprising friends, Jewish businessman Moryc Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak) and German industrial heir Maks Baum (Andrzej Seweryn), to begin the new venture. Unfortunately, Karol's affair with Lucy Zuckerowa (Kalina Jedrusik), the wife of a business rival, threatens to derail the trio's attempts at establishing their own company.
      Director
      Andrzej Wajda
      Screenwriter
      Andrzej Wajda
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Polish
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 17, 2020
      Runtime
      2h 18m