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MAN OF MARBLE

by Andrzej Wajda

synopsis

In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly a proletariat hero, at how that heroism was created, and what became of him. She gets hold of outtakes and censored footage and interviews the man's friends, ex-wife, and the filmmaker who made him a hero. A portrait of Birkut emerges: he believed in the workers' revolution, in building housing for all, and his very virtues were his undoing. Her hard-driving style and the content of the film unnerve her supervisor, who kills the project with the excuse she's over budget. Is there any way she can push the film to completion?

international title: Man of Marble
original title: Czlowiek z marmuru
country: Poland
year: 1977
genre: fiction
directed by: Andrzej Wajda
film run: 165'
release date: PL 25/02/1977, FR 30/05/1978, DE 24/06/1978, FI 13/10/1978, UK 11/1978, GR 12/02/1979, YU 02/1979, IT 09/05/1979, HU 15/11/1979, ES 14/01/1980, DK 29/08/1980, SE 03/09/1980, PT 19/12/1980, AT 25/03/2017
screenplay: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
cast: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Łomnicki
cinematography by: Edward Klosinski
film editing: Halina Prugar-Ketling
art director: Wojciech Majda, Allan Starski
costumes designer: Lidia Rzeszewska, Wieslawa Starska
producer: Andrzej Wajda

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