The Promised Land
Feb 21, 1975 | IMDB 7.3
179 min Watch NowDrama, History
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
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