Man of Marble
Cztowiek z Marmuru
Andrzej Wajda
Twenty-year-old Agnieszka decides to devote her graduation film to a forgotten mythical character by the name of Birkut, a Polish Stakhanovite from the 1950s. To do this, Agnieszka will reconstruct the veritable personality and past of this good and easily manipulated man, using the testimonies of those who knew him...
With : Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Michal Tarkowski
Screenplay : Aleksander Scibor Rylski
Image : Edward Klosinski
Music : Andrzej Korzynski
Screenplay : Aleksander Scibor Rylski
Image : Edward Klosinski
Music : Andrzej Korzynski
Production : Entreprise " Ensemble X "
Distribution: Film Polski
Distribution: Film Polski
A great popular success, Man of Marble was the first Polish film to openly denounce the authoritative and bureaucratic practices of the 1950s and the falsification of official History. Wajda took advantage of periods of relative liberty to bear witness to the struggles of his generation. He wanted the film to be a moment of discovery for the young, and of rediscovery for those who could still remember. The character of the documentary filmmaker acts as a sort of bridge between the two generations. "Several years before the events of Gdansk, Wajda tells us the story of a worker, the model worker from socialist propaganda, with the grandeur of Welles telling the story of Kane" (S. Daney).