Andrzej Wajda - Man of Marble DVD

Man of Marble Andrzej Wajda film Czlowiek z marmuru

Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Script: Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Starring: Krystyna Janda - Agnieszka, Tadeusz Łomnicki - Burski, Michał Tarkowski - Witek, Piotr Cieślak - Michalak, Jacek Łomnicki - Burski, Magda Teresa Wójcik - montażystka, Bogusław Sobczuk - redaktor
Film originalitel: Człowiek z marmuru
Produkction: Poland
Year: 1976

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

Distribution: Vision
DVD Video
Play time:156 min.
Sound formats: DD 5.1
Format: DVD video PAL
Format of the screen: 4:3

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It is a Citizen Kane-styled story where Wajda introduces us to a young woman in Krakow, Agnieszka, who is making her thesis film. She is looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly elevated to the status of a communist hero. She wants to know how his heroism was created and what became of him. She gets a hold of censored footage and interviews with the man s friends and ex-wife, and the filmmaker who made him a hero. A portrait of Birkut emerges as a man who believed in the socialist ideals, the workers revolution, and in building housing for all. However, the young filmmaker s hard-driving style and the content of her film unnerve her supervisor, who thinks it s getting too close to a political nerve. The film project is killed with the excuse she is over budget, but the young filmmaker pushes forward against all odds to finish her film.