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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 .
Feb 25, 1977 · A young filmmaker investigates the fate of a 1950s propaganda hero, Mateusz Birkut, who disappeared from public view. The film explores the themes of history, truth, and propaganda in communist Poland.
A young Polish filmmaker makes a documentary about a 1950s bricklayer who was a propaganda hero but later disappeared. She faces censorship and resistance from the authorities and the film industry.
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.
In repressive mid-1970s Poland, documentary filmmaker Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) begins work on a film about Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), a bricklayer who had briefly been...
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...
Man of Marble (Polish: Człowiek z marmuru) is a 1976 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.
