The Promised Land (1975 film)
- Daniel Olbrychski Karol Borowiecki
- Wojciech Pszoniak: Moryc world
- Andrzej Seweryn: Maks tree
- Kalina Jędrusik: Lucy Zuckerowa
- Anna Nehrebecka: Anka
- Bozena Dykiel: Magda Müller
- Andrzej Szalawski: Hermann Buchholz
- Stanisław Igar: Grunspan
- Franciszek Pieczka: Müller
- Kazimierz Opaliński: Father of Maks Brown
- Andrzej Łapicki: Trawiński
- Zbigniew Zapasiewicz: Kessler
- Piotr Fronczewski: Horn
- Jerzy Zelnik: Stone
- Marek Walczewski: Bum -Bum
- Emilia Krakowska: Gitla
- Wojciech Siemion: Wilczek
The Promised Land ( Ziemia obiecana ) is a film directed by Andrzej Wajda, shot in 1974 in Poland. The first screening of the film was held in Warsaw on 21 February 1975. The first performance in the Federal Republic of Germany was on 13 December 1976, in the German Democratic Republic on November 26, 1977
Action
The film takes place in the emerging textile industrial city Łódź at the end of the 19th century. The city is characterized by the coexistence of Poles, Germans and Jews and the place for industrialists and speculators become. During this time, decide the Pole Karol, the German Maks and the Jew Moryc also to build a factory. By insider information on the Cotton Exchange, the Karol receives from a manufacturer woman, she can make a deal, and thus supplement their starting capital crucial. The inauguration of the factory is done with the usual festivities. However, can the producer, whose wife has cheated on him with Karol, lay out revenge on the factory fire, and it burns completely. As the three friends have completed need of money no insurance, they are as destitute.
The different cultures that existed at that time in the city, competing economically with each other, are shown not only by the main character, but also by the side events. The occasional use of short German phrases in Polish language film actually suggests the influence of German industrialists in the former Łódź.
The film is set during the heyday of the industrial capitalism and shows the occurring social conflicts and antagonisms the example of the textile industry annexed by Russia Poland. While the manufacturers revel in luxury, the factory workers live in poverty. The only value for the manufacturers is to increase their profits and the representation of its own assets. Right at the beginning of the film, the harsh working conditions and the concentration will be staged on profit as opposites. The clerk of Horn attempted a widow who lost her husband in an industrial accident in the factory of Buchholtz to help and is reprimanded by the factory director Karol Borowiecki. From horn to justify the fact that he is not a machine but a human being ( " Never jestem MASZYNA, a człowiekiem "). But Borowiecki tells him: " home, but in the factory is their humanity not required" ( " Domu, aw never fabryce wymaga się od pana człowieczeństwa "). In a later scene Borowiecki comes to a work accident in which a worker lost his arm and apparently dies. He hesitates, but then asks the workers: "On the Machine " ("Do maszyn ").
Reviews
- Filmdienst wrote: " An epic wide panorama of society, often garish naturalistic and deployed in the excessive style. Even if the criticism of the director sometimes overshoots the target, his opulent equipped film but also the expression of a confident commitment to the oppressed people. "
- Monthly Cinema 1974 # 12: " Wajda seems to be completely taken by the frenetic vitality, energy, enterprise, unlimited life and love like the three young protagonists ' to be of the, Promised Land " - wrote Tomasz Burek. - "( ... ) In fact, he shows much more clearly than Reymont has described it, the emptiness of their lives, masked by the dynamic infantilism and automatism, at any price to make big money. '"