“10 out of 10”. Review of films by Andrzej Wajda: “The Promised Land” (1974)

A compilation of the most important, iconic works of the outstanding Polish director and Oscar winner, related to the Andrzej Wajda trail in the Museum of Cinematography. Ziemia Promised Land (1974) — Three friends — Polish Karol Borowiecki, German Maks Baum and Jew Moryc Welt — want to set up a textile factory in Łódź. To achieve their goal, they have to use various tricks forced by the ruthless industrialists of Łódź — cotton tycoons. The adaptation of the novel about the early capitalist Lodz became for Wajda a farewell to the Polish, romantic and noble arcade. Following the story of the realization of the dream of making a fortune, the director presented a naturalistic and baroque synthesis of moral attitudes in a ruthless, fascinating vulgarity struggle for money. A cinematic vision oscillating between realistic reconstruction and baroque symbolism, combined with the concrete in the description of an industrial whiz, in which the lust for money and ruthlessness in satisfying one's own whims fell below the ethical and culturally accepted will