Search results
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
- 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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Marble
People also ask
Who is Mateusz Birkut in man of marble?
What happened to Mateusz Birkut?
Who is Mateusz Birkut?
Who was Birkut & why was he a hero?
Was Birkut a proletariat hero?
Who plays Agnieszka in Birkut?
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.
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.
Dec 21, 2017 · Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) is a determined and tenacious film student who believes that she has found the ideal subject for her diploma film: an investigative documentary on Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a postwar working-class hero who fell into government disfavor and disappeared into obscurity.
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.
- (4.8K)
- Drama
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1977-02-25
Mateusz Birkut is a fresh-faced, provincial bricklayer. Among thousands of others just like him, he goes to work on the construction of a new city outside of Krakow, Nowa Huta. We first see him in an outtake in his beginnings as a bricklayer.
Jun 19, 1977 · The tale of Mateusz Birkut, a hero worker of the Stalin-era in Poland who landed in prison because integrity made him a political nuisance, has captivated Poles this spring, providing, they...
Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer, glorified in a marble statue as a State-promoted ‘Worker’s Hero’ is subsequently removed from all official mention in 1952. Birkut’s rise and fall and disappearance into obscurity provides Wajda with a framework for a brave reassessment of the period.
