Andrzej Wajda - Man of Iron DVD

Man of Iron Andrzej Wajda film Człowiek z żelaza

Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Script: Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Starring: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Syrska, Boguslaw Linda, Andrzej Seweryn
Film originalitel: Człowiek z żelaza
Produkction: Poland
Year: 1981

Subtitles: English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish
Sound version: Polish

Distribution: Vision
DVD Video
Play time:147 min.
Sound formats: 5.1
Format: DVD video PAL
Format of the screen: 16:9

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Winkiel (Marian Opania), a down-on-his-luck radio reporter, is sent to Gdansk to dig up dirt on Tomczyk (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), one of the leaders of burgeoning workers movement. Trying to get into the shipyard that s become the epicenter of the movement, Winkiel bumps into Dzidek (Buguslaw Linda), an old friend of Tomczyk s, who shows him never released footage of the August 1970 riots. Gradually the story of Tomczyk and his father, former model worker Mateusz Birkut (also Radziwilowicz), emerges, along with a portrait of the growth of the Solidarity movement.Awarded the Palme d Or for Best Film at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, this (loosely defined) sequel to Man of Marble is, in retrospect, as much about the end of an era as the dawn of a new one. Within months, martial law would be declared and Solidarity repressed. With a cameo by Lech Walesa.