The 1975 drama was directed by andrzej wajda and based on a novel by wladyslaw reymont. Oct 10, 2016 the promised land 1975 an oscar nomination didnt protect the film against some unjust accusation of alleged antisemitism on wajdas part when, in fact, he righteously removed all antisemitic elements from wladyslaw reymonts source novel. Regrettably, the unwillingness to dig deeper into its important issues ends up lessening the film s impact. Nov 29, 2016 the promised land ziemia obiecana 1975 based on an 1897 novel by wladyslaw reymont, andrzej wajdas the promised land is an epic period drama that is reminiscent of dickens or zola and is a savagely incisive indictment of the rampant industrialisation of the 19th century and capitalist greed. The promised land ziemia obiecana, 1975 is andrzej wajdas epic film about rampant industrialization in the polish city of lodz at the end of the 19th century.
It is like a tug of war, where each side in the conflict gains a temporary small advantage. At the turn of the century, lodz, poland was a quickpaced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. The film, regularly counted among the greatest polish films ever made, the promised land. The initiative is aimed at both experienced professionals such as illustrators, sculptors, and animators, as well as enthusiasts wishing to take their skills to the next level. Regrettably, the unwillingness to dig deeper into its important issues ends up lessening the films impact. The 10day long annual event will play host to a slew of polish movies at venues across the british capital. From many a remote plain, from uplands and from decaying villages, from the great metropolis and from the tiniest townships. Recipient of an honorary oscar, the palme dor, as well as honorary golden lion and honorary golden bear awards, he was a prominent member of the polish film school. The story is wajdas adaptation of the famous novel of the same name by stanislaw wladyslaw reyment, who won nobel prize for literature in 1924.
Promised land festival 2016 seattle polish film festival. Promised land is a good film that was on the cusp of being great. Within just a few decades, what had been a tiny village became an industrial giant. The film begins with karol, the polish son of a downwardly mobile. The film was shot in lodz just like the promised land and takes a very different look at the area, where the governmentimposed pap foisted on the moviegoing public is amusingly transformed into a vehicle for awakening among the people. The feature film by andrzej wajda is set in lodz at the end of the nineteenth century as the polish textile industry flourishes and expensive. In the promised land 1975, lucy zucker, the jewish mistress of a polish nobleman, demonstrates that having sex and devouring greasy food are not mutually exclusive activities. Jan 02, 2012 martin scorsese presents masterpieces of polish cinema duration. With matt damon, frances mcdormand, john krasinski, hal holbrook. Before this new restoration, the promised land was rarely seen outside of poland in this uncut version a bowdlerised version did make it onto dvd in 2000.
A charming salesman steve butlermatt damon tries to convince the people sign over the natural gas fracking rights to their properties. The 1970s were the most prolific artistic period for wajda, who made over ten films. But even after the films initial release, when it won the golden prize at the moscow film festival and an academy award nomination for best foreign language film in 1975, american and uk. London the 11th annual kinoteka polish film festival will open with the u. Direction and screenplay based on a novel by wladyslaw stanislaw reymont andrzej wajda. The promised land, a picture of the uncivilised reality of capitalism at the end of the 19th century, is one of the greatest films of polish cinema. Also the dialogues proved to be nearly phonetic records of the language used by people observed by reymont. A foreigners guide to polish cinema article culture. Polish film festival the promised land senior entertainment. The irony, of course, is that exhibited films since then in both poland and in mass culture have actually.
We became involved in a wonderful adventure with a city, where. The polish film festival series continues with the film, the promised land, at 4 p. The polish film based on the book of the same name by wladyslaw reymont. Andrzej wajda, on the new version of the promised land, released in 2000, kino, 2000 ziemia obiecana promised land, poland 19742000. Ziemia obiecana is set in lodz in the late 19th century, industrial, lassezfaire. The promised land ziema obiecana series polish history in film masterpieces june 1, 2018.
Promised land 2012 r 1h 46m dramas taking advantage of hard economic times, two salespeople for a natural gas company come to a small town to buy drilling rights from the residents. Three men who become partners to build a textile factory offer a microcosm of social classes and ethnic diversity, a neat balance that exists only in fiction. Essential cinema films of andrzej wajda 100 years of polands regained independence. Polish nobel prizewinner wladyslaw reymonts novel is given a startling immediacy in wajdas vibrant adaptation, a film regularly counted among the greatest. It blurres the boundary between digital and traditional arts.
The movie promised land by wajda is great on many levels. Oct 12, 2016 in the promised land 1975, lucy zucker, the jewish mistress of a polish nobleman, demonstrates that having sex and devouring greasy food are not mutually exclusive activities. How polands great filmmaker confronted his countrys. Museum of the moving image programs polish history in. Watch promised land, the polish costume drama film by andrzej. Kalina jedrusik and daniel olbrychski in the promised land 1975 wojciech. Four polish workers from different social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds get on well together.
The promised land 1975 an oscar nomination didnt protect the film against some unjust accusation of alleged antisemitism on wajdas part when, in fact, he righteously removed all antisemitic elements from wladyslaw reymonts source novel. Daniel olbrychski, wojciech pszoniak, andrzej seweryn, anna nehrebecka, kalina jedrusik, franciszek pieczka based on the 1898 novel by the nobel prize winner wladyslaw reymont, the film is set in 19thcentury fastgrowing industrial city of lodz. The opening night of the festival, held at the appropriately grand barbican cinema, was marked by the screening of an unabridged version of the promised land, a film that gained its director andrzej wajda an academy award nomination for best foreign film in 1975. It is a story about the little known genesis of polish modern civilization, and a parable about a different facets of the polish condition with its possible incarnations. The following text contains details on the content and or the end of the story. Promised land ziemia obiecana based on the 1898 novel by the nobel laureate wladyslaw reymont, the film reveals the city of lodz in the midst of industrialization. One of the most outstanding polish films, the promised land, was the winner of numerous prizes, including the golden lion and an academy award nomination.
Set in the industrial city of lodz, the promised land tells the story of a pole, a german, and a jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19thcentury capitalism. Presented in collaboration with the new york polish film festival poland regained its independence in 1918. Synopsis the polish film based on the book of the same name by wladyslaw reymont. Very educational you can learn a lot about industrial revolution in poland in the 19th century. Promised land film is a documentary film company dedicated to creating compelling, engaging films that explore the vital social issues of our time. Taken together we have just enough to build a major factory. In october 2000 there was a new release of the movie in polish cinemas.
See more ideas about cinema, film and polish films. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one polish town. Polish cinema classics volume ii film the guardian. Although it is an old movie and the image quality is expected not to be up to todays standards it looks like a bad vhs copy. Promised land is the only polish novel of this type, absolutely unique in polish literature. In 2007, wajda created one of the most personal films of his career. Lodz, the land of promise for many, means destruction for others. Adapted from polish nobel laureate wladyslaw stanislaw reymonts classic 1897 novel, the promised land is the story of three young friends united in the ruthless pursuit of fortune. The promised land polish film screening slavic languages. The movie is filmed in heartbreakingly beautiful rural pennsylvania. The promised land 1975 ziemia obiecana original title not rated 2h 59min drama 21 february 1975 poland at the turn of the century, lodz, poland was a quickpaced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. The scenario is based on the novel of 1898 by the polish writer wladyslaw reymont. Digital film repository crf zebra film studio andrzej wajdas film based on an 1898 novel by nobelwinning writer wladyslaw reymont.
On the 100th anniversary of the occasion, this series draws from a rich cinematic history to present some of the greatest polish films ever made. Landscape after the battle 1970, pilate and others 1971, the wedding 1972 the film version of the famous polish poetic drama by stanislaw wyspianski, the promised land 1974, man of marble 1976 the film takes place in two time periods, the first film showing the episodes of stalinism in poland, the shadow line 1976, rough treatment the other title. With daniel olbrychski, wojciech pszoniak, andrzej seweryn, anna nehrebecka. A salesman for a natural gas company experiences lifechanging events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. Martin scorsese presents masterpieces of polish cinema. Digital film repository crf, cyryl digital repository of the city. Oct 20, 2018 the promised land, ziemia obiecana, 1975, 179 min. Polish ziemia obiecana is an 1899 novel by polish writer wladyslaw reymont. Set in the industrial city of lodz, the promised land tells the story of a pole, a german, and a jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19 th century capitalism. The promised land, illumination and escape from the liberty cinema 21 march 20 second runs latest dvd release, available from monday 25 march, unearths three polish classics, varied in theme and tone but connected by intellectual questioning and political defiance. Director of photography witold sobocinski, edward klosinski, waclaw dybowski. Set in the industrial city of lodz, the promised land tells the story of a pole, a german, and.
Polish classic promised land in 1976 was nominated for an academy award oscar for best foreign language film new promised lands the film seems to have been shot yesterday. Its not only surprising, it makes for a more paradoxical and deeper film. Oscar nomination, best foreign film 76, gold hugo at chicago international film festival 75, gold medal at moscow film festival 75, grand prize at valladolid film festival 75 1972 the wedding wesele 1970 landscape after the battle krajobraz po bitwie the birch wood brzezina. Poland, 1975, 3h 0min, dcp, in polish with english subtitles. Its realism was perfectly compatible with the essence of cinema, which relies on photographic description of the world. Andrzej wajdas ten best films far flungers roger ebert. Martin scorsese presents masterpieces of polish cinema duration. The promised land is a film adaptation of the novel by wladyslaw reymont, being an epic image of the conflicts of the 19thcentury capitalist lodz. The promised land ziemia obiecana 1975 based on an 1897 novel by wladyslaw reymont, andrzej wajdas the promised land is an epic period drama that is reminiscent of dickens or zola and is a savagely incisive indictment of the rampant industrialisation of. The promised land letterboxd social film discovery. As an ambitious, prosaic epic, its in stark contrast to krzysztof zanussis illumination iluminacja, 1973, a kaleidoscopic fusion of cinematic styles and modes of address that is also a.
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. Another strand to his oeuvre is the fact that many of his films are adaptations of work by important polish and russian writers, including. The promised land ziemia obiecana i have nothing, you have nothing, he has nothing. Promised land is the place for exchange of knowledge and experience and a platform for networking.
Polish classic promised land in 1976 was nominated for an academy award oscar for best foreign language film new promised land s the film seems to have been shot yesterday. Three men who become partners to build a textile factory offer a microcosm of social classes and. The project was accepted and next summer we began to shoot. Ziemia obiecana is a polish drama film from 1975, directed by andrzej wajda. Ziemia obiecana is a 1975 polish drama film directed by andrzej wajda, based on a novel by wladyslaw reymont. He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of a generation 1954, kanal 1956 and. Experience the promised land by andrzej wajda polish. Three young friends, a pole, a jew and a german, pool their money together to build a factory. Promised land had a limited release on december 28, 2012. The selection focuses on the struggle for freedom, as relevant today as it was a century ago. This polish masterpiece has won numerous awards, including four golden lions at the polish film festival and an oscar nomination for best foreign language film category. Taking advantage of hard economic times, two salespeople for a natural gas company come to a small town to buy drilling rights from the residents.
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