Write and Fight

Write and Fight (Pismak) 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 (Wojciech Wysocki), 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 (Zdzislaw Wardejn) and Sixtus (Jan Peszek), 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

Release
The film was theatrically released in Poland on 23 September 1985.