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Man of Marble

Original title: Czlowiek z marmuru
  • 19771977
  • 2h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Czlowiek z marmuru (1977)
  • Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
4.3K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Andrzej Wajda
  • Writer
    • Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
  • Stars
    • Krystyna Janda
    • Jerzy Radziwilowicz
    • Tadeusz Lomnicki
Top credits
  • Director
    • Andrzej Wajda
  • Writer
    • Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
  • Stars
    • Krystyna Janda
    • Jerzy Radziwilowicz
    • Tadeusz Lomnicki
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    • 17User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 1 nomination

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    Krystyna Janda
    Krystyna Janda
    • Agnieszkaas Agnieszka
    Jerzy Radziwilowicz
    Jerzy Radziwilowicz
    • Mateusz Birkutas Mateusz Birkut…
    Tadeusz Lomnicki
    Tadeusz Lomnicki
    • Jerzy Burskias Jerzy Burski
    Jacek Lomnicki
    • Young Burskias Young Burski
    Michal Tarkowski
    Michal Tarkowski
    • Wincenty Witekas Wincenty Witek
    Piotr Cieslak
    • Michalakas Michalak
    Wieslaw Wójcik
    Wieslaw Wójcik
    • Jodlaas Jodla
    Krystyna Zachwatowicz
    Krystyna Zachwatowicz
    • Hankaas Hanka
    Magda Teresa Wójcik
    Magda Teresa Wójcik
    • Editoras Editor
    Boguslaw Sobczuk
    Boguslaw Sobczuk
    • TV Produceras TV Producer
    Leonard Zajaczkowski
    • Leonard Zajaczkowski, Cameramanas Leonard Zajaczkowski, Cameraman
    Jacek Domanski
    Jacek Domanski
    • Soundmanas Soundman
    Irena Laskowska
    Irena Laskowska
    • Museum Employeeas Museum Employee
    Zdzislaw Kozien
    Zdzislaw Kozien
    • Agnieszka's Fatheras Agnieszka's Father
    Wieslaw Drzewicz
    Wieslaw Drzewicz
    • Hanka's Husbandas Hanka's Husband
    Kazimierz Kaczor
    Kazimierz Kaczor
    • Colonelas Colonel
    Ewa Zietek
    Ewa Zietek
    • Secretaryas Secretary
    Elzbieta Borkowska
    Elzbieta Borkowska
    • Casting Attendantas Casting Attendant
    • Director
      • Andrzej Wajda
    • Writer
      • Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
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    Storyline

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    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? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
    • year 1976
    • 1970s
    • 1950s
    • krakow
    • lesser poland voivodeship
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    • Trivia
      The award Burski is flaunting at the airport on his return was Wajda's own award, hence Burski is a mock self-portrait.
    • Connections
      Edited into Sauve la vie (qui peut) (1981)

    User reviews17

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    Top review
    6/10
    For the party and for the nation
    Ironic, tongue-in-cheek, smart and a tad too long, "Man of Marble" is a good movie that can't help being a little bit too much in love with itself, on top of being unable to know where to stop, thus ending being a little bit repetitive.

    Agnieszka, a university student doing her diploma film, decides to investigate in the past of long forgotten hero of the people Birkut. Her search brings her to discover a lot about a man that was put in a pedestal to then be forgotten and erased from the history of the nation.

    Wajda does not use a lot of subtlety in this film, but who needs it when the script is smart enough, the direction top notch, with some great shots and a pace that is sometimes close to an action movie, and there is really good acting (in particular our hero, Agnieszka, played with a lot of sass and confidence by Krystyna Janda). The score and the use of locations is also great.

    However, the movie clocks at over two hours and a half, and the ideas behind the movie: the use of unknown people by the ones in power as little more than toys, destroying lives and dreams without a second of remorse, the difficulty to fight the system or the way paranoia extends everywhere in some regimes become undone by repetition and by a story that starts to spin on its wheels around the 1 hour and a half mark.

    It is totally worth checking though. Just be sure to have enough time (you may want to have some breaks).
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    • Apr 15, 2017

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 25, 1977 (Poland)
    • Country of origin
      • Poland
    • Language
      • Polish
    • Also known as
      • Človek iz marmorja
    • Filming locations
      • Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
    • Production companies
      • Film Polski Film Agency
      • Zespól Filmowy "X"
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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