Write and Fight

Write and Fight

1985 · 113 min · ★ 6.7 · Drama

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.

Directed by Wojciech Has · Written by Władysław Terlecki

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