| Write and Fight | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Wojciech Jerzy Has |
| Written by | Wojciech Jerzy Has |
| Based on | Pismak by Wladyslaw Terlecki |
| Starring | Wojciech Wysocki Zdzislaw Wardejnc Jan Peszek |
| Cinematography | Grzegorz Kędzierski |
| Edited by | Barbara Lewandowska-Conio |
| Music by | Jerzy Maksymiuk |
Production company | Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych (Łódź) |
| Distributed by | Zespol Filmowy "Rondo" |
Release date |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
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.
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]
The film was theatrically released in Poland on 23 September 1985.[3]
