The Promised Land / Kanal

Name: The Promised Land / Kanal
Genre: Drama
Rating: 82

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THE PROMISED LAND, 1975, 115 min. Dir. Andrzej Wajda. A sweeping, epic masterpiece. Three industrialist friends in 19th century Lodz, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak and Andrzej Seweryn dream of building a factory and making their fortune. Never has a time or a city been captured so well on film. You can feel the mud, the smoke and the greed. Adapted by Wajda from Nobel Prize winning author Stanislaw Reymont's novel. With an amazing score by Wojciech Kilar. KANAL, 1957, Janus Films, 95 min. Dir. Andrzej Wajda . A WWII Polish resistance group based in the sewers of Warsaw fights against the Nazi Occupation. Starting from the darkness of the sewers, the belly of the town, the murkiness of ignorance, these fighters jumpstart the rebirth of the nation.

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Who directed The Promised Land / Kanal?: Bernard Devlin

What is The Promised Land / Kanal about?: THE PROMISED LAND, 1975, 115 min. Dir. Andrzej Wajda. A sweeping, epic masterpiece. Three industrialist friends in 19th century Lodz, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak and Andrzej Seweryn dream of building a factory and making their fortune. Never has a time or a city been captured so well on film. You can feel the mud, the smoke and the greed. Adapted by Wajda from Nobel Prize winning author Stanislaw Reymont's novel. With an amazing score by Wojciech Kilar.
KANAL, 1957, Janus Films, 95 min. Dir. Andrzej Wajda . A WWII Polish resistance group based in the sewers of Warsaw fights against the Nazi Occupation. Starting from the darkness of the sewers, the belly of the town, the murkiness of ignorance, these fighters jumpstart the rebirth of the nation.