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The Promised Land

7.4(91)19752h 59m3

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

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Released
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Language
Yiddish
  • factory worker
  • adultery
  • capitalist
  • factory
  • friendship
  • man vs machine
  • fire
  • husband wife relationship
  • cheating
  • capitalism
  • lodz
  • bankrupt

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Poland

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical5 Feb 1988
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereShanghai International Film Festival13 Jun 2026
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical11 Aug 1980
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical1 Oct 1976
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival18 May 1975
  • GermanyDE

    • TheatricalEast Germany2 Sept 1976
    • TheatricalWest Germany26 Nov 1977
  • GreeceGR

    • Digital / OTT9 Jun 2016
    • TheatricalRe-Release25 Sept 2025
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical23 Dec 1976
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereVenice Film Festival5 Sept 1998
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical8 Aug 1981
  • NetherlandsNL

    • TV12 Jul 1981
  • PolandPL

    • Theatrical21 Feb 1975
    • PremiereReconstruction at Grand Theatre in Warsaw9 Oct 2000

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The Promised Land was released on 21 February 1975.

Audience reviews

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    badelf

    11/30/2025

    8/10

    Andrzej Wajda's "The Promised Land" is quite fascinating and eminently watchable. The period imagery is superb, capturing late 19th century industrial Łódź with visceral authenticity. From the opening shots of choking black smoke enveloping the city, Wajda establishes the visual language of a world consumed by industrial greed. The narrative grows progressively darker and more cutthroat, following the moral degradati…

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