Write and Fight (Pismak)

Wojciech Jerzy Has

One of Has’s most potent satires, Write and Fight is set at the outset of World War I and follows a young journalist who finds himself incarcerated in a Russian prison, where he’s forced to share a cell with a safecracker and a monk-turned-murderer.

DIRECTOR
Wojciech Jerzy Has
YEAR
1985
COUNTRY
Poland
RUNTIME
119 minutes
LANGUAGE
Polish with English subtitles

One of Has’s most potent satires, Write and Fight is set at the outset of World War I and follows a young journalist who finds himself incarcerated in a Russian prison, where he’s forced to share a cell with a safecracker and a monk-turned-murderer while the authorities investigate their respective cases. The journalist starts taking notes on his present plight with an eye toward publishing a book down the road, but when he contracts typhoid fever, the partition between reality and fantasy slowly begins to crumble and a powerful delirium takes hold….

Write and Fight (Pismak)
Write and Fight (Pismak)
Write and Fight (Pismak)
Write and Fight (Pismak)

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