The Promised Land

The Promised Land focuses on three ambitious young entrepreneurs in Lodz desperate to make their fortunes.

Faithful to the richness of the 19th-century novel it's based on (by Polish author and Nobel Prize laureate Wladyslaw Reymont), the film offers a Dickensian panorama of ambition and greed, set against turn of the century Poland’s pursuit of modern industrialization. With Daniel Olbrychski. (168 mins., 35mm)

The Polish Cultural Institute, New York, organized this tour.