The Promised Land

At the turn of the century, Łódź is a loud, fast textile town of cutthroat industrialists and unsafe factory floors. Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski), a Pole, joins his friends Moryc Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak), a Jew, and Maks Baum (Andrzej Seweryn), a German, to pool their money and build a mill of their own. Andrzej Wajda sets three friendships against a city that rewards ruthlessness, and everything they own rides on one factory.