This screening of "The Promised Land" is part of the "Andrzej Wajda 100" series, honoring the centennial of the Polish director. The event includes an introduction by Columbia University Film Professor Annette Insdorf.

The Promised Land with Annette Insdorf (Columbia University Film Professor)

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.