Man of Iron
1981
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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 .
May 10, 2014 · A major milestone in Polish cinema, Man of Marble comes from a period of political thaw, moderate affluence and agonised self-questioning between the end of hardline postwar Stalinism in the 1950s ...
Man of Marble – Andrzej Wajda . Submitted by Culture.plon Wed, 02/16/2011 - 22:00. #film. Feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda in 1976. Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble (originally: Człowiek z Marmuru) is now considered one of the foremost films from behind the Iron Curtain.
Apr 20, 2008 · It must be added, finally, that Wajda followed up Man of Marble five years later with Man of Iron (1981), a sequel in which a new investigation focuses on Birkut’s son (played by the same actor, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, and seen in the closing scenes of Man of Marble). Actual footage of the historic Gdansk shipyard strikes underpins the narrative ...
