Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 70: Wed Mar 11

The Promised Land (Wajda, 1975): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.45pm

This screening features a Q&A with actor Daniel Olbrychski. The film, part of the Andrzej Wajda season at BFI Southbank, is also being shown on February 22nd.

Guardian review (in full here):
Andrzej Wajda’s queasily compelling film from 1975, adapted by him from a novel by Wladysław Reymont, is an expressionist comic opera of toxic capitalism and bad faith, carried out by jittery entrepreneurs whose skills include insider trading, worker-exploitation and burning down failing businesses for the insurance. It is set in late 19th-century Łódź, a supposed promised land of free enterprise, whose night skies are shown by Wajda as more or less permanently red with factories set ablaze.
Peter Bradshaw

Here (and above) is the trailer.