

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.
Andrzej Wajda
Herman Bucholz

Stanisław Igar
Grünspan

Franciszek Pieczka
Müller

Kazimierz Opaliński
Maks' Father

Andrzej Łapicki
Trawiński

Wojciech Siemion
Wilczek