Write and Fight
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Release date 9 November 1985 (1985-23-09) Based on Pismak by Wladyslaw Terlecki Writer Wladyslaw Terlecki (novel), Wladyslaw Terlecki (screenplay) Initial release September 23, 1985 (Poland) Screenplay Wojciech Jerzy Has, Wladyslaw Terlecki Cast (Investigating Judge), Wojciech Wysocki (Raphael), (Maria), Hanna Mikuc (Sixtus lover), Jan Peszek (Sixtus)Similar movies Related Wojciech Jerzy Has movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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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.
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Release
The film was released on 23 September 1985.
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