

The Promised Land
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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- Language
- Yiddish
- factory worker
- adultery
- capitalist
- factory
- friendship
- man vs machine
- fire
- husband wife relationship
- cheating
- capitalism
- lodz
- bankrupt
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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
1- B8/10
badelf
11/30/2025
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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