Not only is andrzej wajda s award winning man of marble one of the most important films in the history of polis cinema it is also one of the most compelling attacks on government corruption ever made.
Man of marble 1977.
Man of marble is a 1977 polish film directed by andrzej wajda.
She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
Agnieszka played by krystyna janda in her first role is a young filmmaker who is making her diploma film on birkut whose whereabouts seems to have been lost two decades later.
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.
It is a citizen kane styled story where wajda introduces us to a young woman in krakow agnieszka who is making her thesis film.
2h 40min drama 25 february 1977 poland 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.
Man of marble term that refers to the propagandistic marble statues made in birkut s image is a powerful and brilliant story about the importance of past in the lives of everyone it s the thing that makes us look for the future with better eyes and in the film we are constantly dragged down to it in order to get some answers about birkut s future.
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Synopsis man of marble is a polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized.
Man of marble a 1977 polish film by andrzej wajda evokes the comic creation and tragic desecration of a national hero with savage brilliance.
Not yet rated 2 hr 45 min feb 25th 1977 drama history man of marble is a polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized.