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Man of Marble (Polish: Człowiek z marmuru) is a 1977 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It chronicles the fall from grace of a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut (played by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an over-achieving worker, in Nowa Huta, a new (real life) socialist city near Kraków.
Man of Marble: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki. A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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- Drama
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1977-02-25
Wajda shifted from Social Realism to Moral Concern, and it took him nearly 15 years to release Man of Marble. He used the film as a channel to express everything he could not blatantly proclaim about the state of Poland. This is the director at his boldest, most ambitious, and thought-provoking.
Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble (originally: Człowiek z Marmuru) is now considered one of the foremost films from behind the Iron Curtain. The film, released at a time when the country’s media was carefully screened by censors, criticises the system from within.
Sep 10, 2012 · Director: Andrzej Wajda; Screenwriter: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski; Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz; Krystyna Janda; Tadeusz Lomnicki; Jacek Lomnicki; Michael Tarkowski
Apr 20, 2008 · Birkut, the titular marble man of Wajda’s film, exists in contradistinction in that he remains an object of a controlling discourse that shapes and distorts perceptions of his life and work.
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Man of Marble is a 1977 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It chronicles the fall from grace of a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut, who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an over-achieving worker, in Nowa Huta, a new socialist city near Kraków.
