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The Promised Land
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1974
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About the movie
Three friends are going on a picnic feeling bubbly. Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski), who is Polish, Moritz Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak), a Jew and German Max Baum (Andrzej Seweryn) decide to establish a textile factory. They want to get rich as soon as possible. At this time, Łódź is a developing centre of industry and a melting pot of nationalities in which poverty can be seen next to enormous wealth. The friends are lucky because they learn about the planned increase in customs duties. This means that they can get the capital they want. Meanwhile, the bankers and factory owners in Łódź are opposed to the business between Welt and Borowiecki, because they don’t want to support the Pole. Borowiecki's father sells the family estate to support his son. The money is also given by Anka, Karol's fiancée. Zuckerowa - the wife of a wealthy industrialist tells him that she is pregnant. Her husband burns the newly established factory, and Karol Borowiecki has to start his business from scratch. Years later, he becomes part of the Łódź elite.
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Trivia
1975 - Chicago (International Film Festival) - Grand Prix "Golden Hugo"
1975 - Gdańsk (Polish Feature Film Festival) - Grand Prize of the Festival "Gdańsk Golden Lions"
1975 - Gdańsk (Polish Feature Film Festival) - Award for the male role - Wojciech Pszoniak
1975 - Gdańsk (Polish Feature Film Festival) - Award for set design - Tadeusz Kosarewicz
1975 - Gdańsk (Polish Feature Film Festival) - Award for music - Wojciech Kilar
1975 - Lublin (International Film Forum "Man-Work-Creativity") - audience award
1975 - Łagów (Lubuskie Film Summer) - Golden Grape Award name: 1st-degree distinction for "outstanding artistic value, for the multifaceted presentation of the historical process in its political, economic, cultural and moral aspects, and finally for the brave, thoroughly modern interpretation of the literary model"
1975 - Łagów (Lubuskie Film Summer) - Award of the Coordinating Artistic Council of Studio Cinemas for "outstanding cognitive, ideological and artistic values, and especially for expressing in a condensed, highly emotional form the most important problems of shaping capitalism in Poland, on the example of the industrial development of Łódź"
1975 - Moscow (MFF) - Gold Medal
1975 - Warsaw Mermaid (SDP Film Critics Club award) in the feature film category awarded during the 7th Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów
1975 - Award of the Minister of Culture and Art, 1st degree for Andrzej Wajda
1976 - Brussels (MFF) - 2nd prize from journalists
1976 - Belgrade (IFF "FEST") - award for set design - Tadeusz Kosarewicz
1976 - Oscar (American Academy of Film Art Award) nomination in the category: foreign language film
1977 - Cartagena (MFF) - award for directing - Andrzej Wajda
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