Write and Fight

Write and Fight
Directed byWojciech Jerzy Has
Written byWojciech Jerzy Has
Based onPismak
by Wladyslaw Terlecki
StarringWojciech Wysocki
Zdzislaw Wardejnc
Jan Peszek
CinematographyGrzegorz Kędzierski
Edited byBarbara Lewandowska-Conio
Music byJerzy Maksymiuk
Production
company
Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych (Łódź)
Distributed byZespol Filmowy "Rondo"
Release date
  • 23 September 1985 (1985-09-23)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Write and Fight (Polish: Pismak) is a 1985 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Wojciech Wysocki, Zdzislaw Wardejnc and Jan Peszek. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Wladyslaw Terlecki and tells the story of a young journalist locked in a prison cell with a safebreaker and a priest, and the stories they tell.

Plot

Set during the First World War, Raphael (Wojciech Wysocki), is a young journalist with literary ambitions who is arrested and put in prison for publishing an anti-clerical magazine called "The Devil". There he is given a cell with a famous safecracker (Zdzislaw Wardejn) and Sixtus (Jan Peszek), a taciturn former monk charged with murder. The writer forms the idea for a novel based on the stories his cellmates share, however when he contracts typhoid fever it becomes hard for him to distinguish what is real and what is imaginary.[1][2]

Cast

  • Grzegorz Heromiński as Hunchback
  • Gustaw Holoubek as Investigating Judge
  • Gabriela Kownacka as Maria
  • Andrzej Krukowski as Gruźlik
  • Janusz Michalowski as Prison Doctor
  • Hanna Mikuć as Sixtus' lover
  • Jan Peszek as Sixtus
  • Zdzislaw Wardejn as Boxer
  • Wojciech Wysocki as Raphael
  • Jerzy Zelnik as Writer
  • Marzena Trybal as the safecracker's friend
  • Gustaw Lutkiewicz as warden
  • John Paul Raven as jailer
  • Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak as the agent who arrested Raphael
  • Andrew Szenajch as officer
  • Jerzy Moes as Austrian officer

Release

The film was theatrically released in Poland on 23 September 1985.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ New York Times - Movies | Pismak
  2. ^ Pismak - FilmPolski.pl
  3. ^ "FilmPolski.pl". FilmPolski (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-07-28.


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