''Write and Fight'' ( pl, Pismak) is a 1985 Polish film directed by

Wojciech Jerzy Has Wojciech Jerzy Has (1 April 1925, Kraków – 3 October 2000, Łódź) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Early life and studies Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków. Has himself was agnostic. However, his family ...

, 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

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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

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it becomes hard for him to distinguish what is real and what is imaginary.

Cast

* Grzegorz Heromiński as Hunchback *

Gustaw Holoubek Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator. Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of P ...

as Investigating Judge *

Gabriela Kownacka Gabriela Anna Kownacka (née Kwasz) (25 May 1952, Wrocław – 30 November 2010, Warsaw) was a Polish film and stage actress, best known for playing in the Polish TV series '' Rodzina zastępcza''. Kownacka was a Lutheran. She has starred in ove ...

as Maria * Andrzej Krukowski as Gruźlik * Janusz Michalowski as Prison Doctor * Hanna Mikuć as Sixtus' lover *

Jan Peszek Jan Peszek (born 13 February 1944) is a Polish theatre, film, and television actor. Although primarily involved in theatre work, he has appeared in more than sixty films since 1970. He is most well known for his work with dramaturgist Bogusław S ...

as Sixtus * Zdzislaw Wardejn as Boxer * Wojciech Wysocki as Raphael *

Jerzy Zelnik Jerzy Zelnik (born 14 September 1945) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1963. He was awarded the Badge of Merit in Culture (1997) and Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Sel ...

as Writer * Marzena Trybal as the safecracker's friend *

Gustaw Lutkiewicz Gustaw Lutkiewicz (29 June 1924 – 24 February 2017) was a Polish actor and singer. He was born to a Polish family in Kaunas. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1970, the Officer's Cross in 1985 and the ...

as warden * John Paul Raven as jailer * Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak as the agent who arrested Raphael * Andrew Szenajch as officer *

Jerzy Moes Jerzy Moes (Jerzy Michal Moes; 29 September 1935 – 27 April 2019) was a Polish film and television actor. Moes was born in Warsaw, the sixth son of ten children of Aleksander Moes and his wife Barbara Sobańska ( Junosza coat of arms). He is al ...

as Austrian officer

Release

The film was theatrically released in Poland on 23 September 1985.

References

External links

* 1985 films Polish drama films 1980s Polish-language films Films directed by Wojciech Has Films based on Polish novels {{Poland-film-stub

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