Czlowiek z Marmuru (Man of Marble) (1976)
Release Date: Jan 23, 1981 Wide
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The first of Polish director Andrzej Wajda's two "Solidarity" films, Man of Marble (originally Czlowiek z Marmuru) concerns bricklayer Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Lauded as a national hero in the 1950s due to his skills at his trade, Birkut has inexplicably fallen into obscurity. In making a film of the bricklayer's life, documentary director Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) discovers that the bricklayer used his sudden fame to become involved in labor politics -- whereupon the repressive
Jan 23, 1981 Wide
Sep 10, 2002
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Cast
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Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Mateusz Birkut -
Krystyna Janda
Agnieszka -
Tadeusz Lomnicki
Jerzy Burski -
Jacek Lomnicki
Young Burski -
Michal Tarkowski
Witek -
Wieslaw Wojcik
Jodia -
Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Hanka Tomczyk -
Magda Teresa Wójcik
Film Editor -
Boguslaw Sobczuk
Agnieszka's Producer -
Zdzislaw Kozien
Agnieszka's Father -
Kazimierz Kaczor
Colonel -
Ewa Zietek
Secretary -
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Foreign Titles
- Der Mann aus Marmor (DE)
- Man of Marble (Czlowiek z marmuru) (UK)
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[font=Century Gothic]"Man of Marble" is a political thriller directed by Andrzej Wajda that does an excellent job of showing a government that is trying to escape its own past and a generation that is trying to learn the truth about the history of their country. The movie also shows how propaganda can be used to further the government's goals.[/font]
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[font=Century Gothic]Since this movie is critical of Poland's Communist government, then how did it ever get made? I think this is precisely another point of this very fine movie - how a critical movie is made in a non-democratic society.[/font]
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[font=Century Gothic]And I thought it was interesting that the filmmaker character in this movie was a woman. This in a time when female filmmakers were especially rare...[/font]