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The Promised Land

Ziemia obiecana

1975179 minPLIMDb 7.8/10 · 4.1K votes

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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1870 → 1900

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The Industrial RevolutionSteam, factories, labor and the industrial city, c. 1760–1900→
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Kingdom of Poland under Russian ruleSetting · Historical Era

Congress Poland, established in 1815 in personal union with the Russian Empire; its institutions and autonomy were increasingly curtailed following nineteenth-century uprisings, while the territory remained under Russian rule until World War I.

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ŁódźPrimary Setting · City

A major textile-manufacturing city in the Kingdom of Poland that experienced explosive industrial and demographic growth in the second half of the 19th century.

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