
Andrzej Wajda
Man of Marble (Czlowiek z marmuru)
Het Groot Festival
160'
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1977
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Polish
Director:
Andrzej Wajda
Composer:
Andrzej Korzynski
With:
Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
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?
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Credits
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Composer
Andrzej Korzynski
With
Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Scenario
Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
Director of Photography
Edward Klosinski
Editor
Halina Prugar-Ketling
Producer
Andrzej Wajda
More information
Dialogue
Polish
Countries of production
Poland
Year
1977