Write and Fight

113 minutesCountryPolandLanguagePolish

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 theatrically released in Poland on 23 September 1985.^[3]

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

References

External links

• Pismak at IMDb