Write and Fight
Write and Fight 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.
Plot
Set during the First World War, Raphael, 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 and Sixtus, 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.Cast
- Grzegorz Heromiński as Hunchback
- Gustaw Holoubek as Investigating Judge
- Gabriela Kownacka as Maria
- Andrzej Krukowski as Gruźlik
- Janusz Michalowski as Prison Doctor
- Hanna Mikuć as Sixtus' lover
- Jan Peszek as Sixtus
- Zdzislaw Wardejn as Boxer
- Wojciech Wysocki as Raphael
- Jerzy Zelnik as Writer
- Marzena Trybal as the safecracker's friend
- Gustaw Lutkiewicz as warden
- John Paul Raven as jailer
- Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak as the agent who arrested Raphael
- Andrew Szenajch as officer
- Jerzy Moes as Austrian officer