

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.
Direction
Wajda turns factory machinery into genuine nightmare fuel.
Cinematography
Soot-black frames that make you taste 19th-century smog.
Acting
Olbrychski's descent from idealist to monster is *chef's kiss*.

Director
Andrzej Wajda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wajda built a functional 19th-century factory set in Łódź that locals tried to have preserved as an actual museum.
The film was initially banned for 'anti-socialist elements' because Poland's communist censors missed that it critiques ALL economic systems equally brutally.
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