The Promised Land
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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.
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A sprawling, gritty epic of industrial ambition and its human cost. Witness the relentless drive for profit in 19th-century Poland, where friendships fray and humanity is tested amidst the roar of the factory.
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