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 wajda.
Andrzej wajda was once a documentary filmmaker in post war poland who at 1st made films of stalinist propaganda indeed man of marble uses some of these earlier films of socialist realism in the earlier style man of marble shows the creativity that flourished once orthodoxy collapsed during de stalinisation there is an unexpected bloom from the.
The originality of andrzej wajda s film man of marble lies in the fact that it is not original what can be less original than the fate of a labour leader from the stalinist era.
More intellectually stimulating than emotionally involving man of marble sees wajda tackle his favourite theme of historical revisionism of reassessing the past and its multiplicity of perspectives and rescuing the truth or at least something more serving people above the state from the myth making.
The beauty of this exceptional film lies in the complexity of the director s attitude towards birkut a representative perfect in his submissiveness of the whole.
Andrzej wajda was once a documentary filmmaker in post war poland who at 1st made films of stalinist propaganda indeed man of marble uses some of these earlier films of socialist realism in the earlier style man of marble shows the creativity that flourished once orthodoxy collapsed during de stalinisation there is an unexpected bloom from the.
Directed by andrzej wajda.
With krystyna janda jerzy radziwilowicz tadeusz lomnicki jacek lomnicki.
Polski film z 1976 roku w reżyserii andrzeja wajdy.
Andrzej wajda was once a documentary filmmaker in post war poland who at 1st made films of stalinist propaganda indeed man of marble uses some of these earlier films of socialist realism in the earlier style man of marble shows the creativity that flourished once orthodoxy collapsed during de stalinisation there is an unexpected bloom from the.
Man of marble revived wajda s reputation and gave him new purpose and it inspired the careers of krzysztof zanussi agnieszka holland krzysztof kieślowski and ryszard bugajski as film makers.