Ziemia Obiecana
Produced by	-
Directed by	Andrzej Wajda
Written by	Andrzej Wajda
Starring	Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Music by	Wojciech Kilar
Cinematography	Waclaw Dybowski, Edward Klosinski, Witold Sobocinski
Editing	Zofia Dwornik, Halina Prugar
Distributed by	-
Release date	1975
Runtime	179 min.
Language	Polish
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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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (580x800, 57 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School. ... Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School. ... Daniel Olbrychski (b. ... Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, Poland) is a movie and theatrical actor. ... Andrzej Seweryn (born April 25, 1946 in Heilbronn, Germany) is a Polish actor. ... Wojciech Kilar (b. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926) is a Polish film director, one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw StanisÅ‚aw Reymont WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw StanisÅ‚aw Reymont (May 7, 1867 – December 5, 1925) (the actual name was Rejment) was a Polish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. ...

Set in the industrial city of Łódź, The Promised Land tells the story of a Pole, a German, and a Jew stugglingh to build a factory in the raw world of 19th century capitalism. Łódź (pronunciation: ), the second-largest city (population 1,292,297 in 2004) of Poland, lies in the centre of the country. ... A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods or products. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... In common usage capitalism refers to an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned and operated, and where investment and the production, distribution and prices of commodities (goods and services) are determined privately in a free market, rather than by the state. ...

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 Jew and heir to an old handloom factory, and Moritz Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak), an independent German 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. Daniel Olbrychski (b. ... Andrzej Seweryn (born April 25, 1946 in Heilbronn, Germany) is a Polish actor. ... Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, Poland) is a movie and theatrical actor. ... A tariff is a tax placed on imported and/or exported goods, sometimes called a customs duty. ... A futures exchange, or futures and options exchange is a corporation or mutual organization which provides the facilities to trade futures contracts and options. ...

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.   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ...

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. Charles Dickens used his rich imagination, sense of humour and detailed memories, particularly of his childhood, to enliven his fiction. ... Émile Zola (April 2, 1840 – September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... Gorkys autographed portrait Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28; March 16 Old Style, 1868–June 14, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. ... F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu German Expressionism, also referred to as expressionism in filmmaking, developed in Germany (especially Berlin) during the 1920s. ...

The novel

The film was adapted from Wladyslaw Reymont's 1899 novel The Promised Land, in which he vividly painted a portrait of the rapid industrialization of Lodz 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. 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

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
• Marek Walczewski as Bum-Bum
• Lidia Korsakówna as Widow
• Emilia Krakowska as Gitla
• Bernard Ladysz as Russian Merchant
• Boguslaw Sochnacki as Grosglück
• Bohdana Majda as Grosglückowa
• Kazimierz Kaczor as Kipman
• Teodor Gendera as Endelman
• Jerzy Przybylski as Doctor
• Mieczyslaw Waskowski as Bucholz's Servant
• Jan Pawel Kruk as Borowiecki's Servant
• Alicja Sobieraj as Anka's Maid
• Krzysztof Majchrzak as Socha
• Janina Grzegorczyk as Sochowa
• Janina Tur-Kirylow as Theatre Singer
• Ryszard Bromowicz as Theatre Singer
• Witold Dederko as Old Dyer
• Tomasz Lengren as Kessler's Foreman

Daniel Olbrychski (b. ... Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, Poland) is a movie and theatrical actor. ... Andrzej Seweryn (born April 25, 1946 in Heilbronn, Germany) is a Polish actor. ... Piotr Fronczewski (born June 8, 1946 in Lodz, Poland), very popular Polish singer and actor. ...

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

// Directors Józef Arkusz Stanisław Bareja Wojciech Has Agnieszka Holland Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Kawalerowicz Krzysztof Kieślowski -- The Three Colors trilogy, The Decalogue Jan Jakub Kolski Kazimierz Kutz Andrzej Munk Marek Piwowski Roman Polański Ladislas Starevich Wladyslaw Starewicz Andrzej Wajda Krzysztof Zanussi Andrzej Zulawski Actors and actresses Eugeniusz... There are two lists of Polish language films: Organized alphabetically by Polish title Organized alphabetically by title of English release Alphabetical by Polish title Kanał Lotna Pokolenie Zemsta Ziemia Obiecana Alphabetical by title of English release See also Polish film school Categories: Lists of films | Polish films ...

External links

• The Promised Land at the Internet Movie Database