Write and Fight
| Write and Fight | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Wojciech Jerzy Has |
| Written by | Wojciech Jerzy Has |
| Based on |
Pismak by Wladyslaw Terlecki |
| Starring |
Wojciech Wysocki Zdzislaw Wardejnc Jan Peszek |
| Music by | Jerzy Maksymiuk |
| Cinematography | Grzegorz Kędzierski |
| Edited by | Barbara Lewandowska-Conio |
Production company |
Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych (Łódź) |
| Distributed by | Zespol Filmowy "Rondo" |
Release dates |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
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 released on 23 September 1985.
See also
References
- ↑ New York Times - Movies | Pismak
- ↑ Pismak - FilmPolski.pl
External links
- Pismak at the Internet Movie Database