Man of Marble (1977)
- Original title
- Człowiek z marmuru
- Directed by
- Andrzej Wajda
- Genre
- drama film, flashback film
- Country
- Poland
- Runtime
- 2h 37m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 93 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young filmmaker searches for a once-celebrated bricklayer who was made into a propaganda hero decades earlier. She pieces together his story through interviews and archival footage, uncovering how the communist system used and discarded him.
investigativereflectivepolitically chargedmelancholicslow-pacedenigmaticcriticalnostalgic
What happens
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. Agnieszka, played by Krystyna Janda in her first role, is a young filmmaker who is making her diploma film (a student graduation requirement) on Birkut, whose whereabouts seem to have been lost two decades later. The title refers to the propagandist marble statues made in Birkut's image. Man of Marble reflects director Wajda's emerging hostility to the Stalinist cultural establishment and its oppressive restrictions on artistic expression. The film's plot foretells the Lenin Shipyard strike of 1980 and the rise of the Solidarity Movement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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