Write and Fight
{{Infobox film
| name = Write and Fight
| image =
| caption =
| director = Wojciech Jerzy Has
| producer =
| writer = Wojciech Jerzy Has
| based_on = {{based on|Pismak |Wladyslaw Terlecki}}
| starring = Wojciech Wysocki
Zdzislaw Wardejnc
Jan Peszek
| music = Jerzy Maksymiuk
| cinematography = Grzegorz Kędzierski
| editing = Barbara Lewandowska-Conio
| studio = Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych (Łódź)
| distributor = Zespol Filmowy "Rondo"
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1985|09|23}}
| runtime = 113 minutes
| country = Poland
| language = Polish
| budget =
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Write and Fight ({{langx|pl|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.New York Times - [https://web.archive.org/web/20140418100254/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/118633/Pismak/overview Movies | Pismak][http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=121189 Pismak] - FilmPolski.pl
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.{{Cite web |title=FilmPolski.pl |url=https://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=FilmPolski |language=pl}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0089812|title=Pismak}}
{{Wojciech Has}}
Category:1980s Polish-language films
Category:Films directed by Wojciech Has
Category:Films based on Polish novels
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