Man of Marble (1977)
February 25, 1977Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.

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Cast & Crew.

Krystyna Janda
Agnieszka

Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk

Tadeusz Łomnicki
Jerzy Burski

Jacek Lomnicki
Jerzy Burski (young) / Assistant Camera

Michał Tarkowski
Witek

Piotr Cieślak
Michalak

Wiesław Wójcik
Jodła

Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Hanka Tomczyk

Magda Teresa Wójcik
Editor

Bogusław Sobczuk
TV Editor

Leonard Zajączkowski
Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP

Jacek Domański
Sound Man

Zdzisław Kozień
Agnieszka's Father

Irena Laskowska
Museum Worker

Wiesław Drzewicz
Hanka's Husband

Kazimierz Kaczor
UB Colonel

Ewa Ziętek
Colonel's Secretary

Elżbieta Borkowska-Szukszta
Blonde

Andrzej Grąziewicz
Judge

Edmund Karwański
Prosecutor

Henryk Łapiński
Marcin Pawlusiak

Jerzy Moniak
Engineer Moniak

Irena Oberska
Zakopane Houseekeper

Zbigniew Płoszaj
Chronicle Sound Man

Juliusz Roland
Mieczysław Hertz

Maciej Rayzacher
ZMP Meeting Chairman

Grzegorz Skurski
Agnieszka's Driver

Dorota Stalińska
Photojournalist in Okęcie

Zdzisław Szymborski
Boardroom Member

Mariusz Świgoń
Construction Technician

Krystyna Wolańska
Marysia's Guardian

Andrzej Wykrętowicz
Jan Wołodkiewicz

Feliks Falk
Film Director (uncredited)

Stanisław Frąckowiak
Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited)

Witold Holtz
Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited) / First Assistant Director

Krzysztof Kiersznowski
Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)

Jarosław Kopaczewski
Worker (uncredited)

Ilona Łepkowska
Organiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited)

Stanisław Michalik
Judge (uncredited)

Mieczysław Grąbka
Chronicle Narrator (voice)

Andrzej Seweryn
Record Beating Announcer (voice)

Agnieszka Holland
Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited) / First Assistant Director

Andrzej Korzyński
Original Music Composer

Edward Kłosiński
Director of Photography

Halina Prugar-Ketling
Editor

Andrzej Wajda
Director

Jerzy Tomczuk
Assistant Director

Alina Klobukowska
Production Executive

Andrzej Smulski
Production Executive

Maria Kalicinski
Assistant Editor

Iwona Kamińska
Assistant Makeup Artist

Wojciech Majda
Art Direction

Elżbieta Kozłowska
Production Assistant

Waldemar Król
Production Assistant

Małgorzata Jaworska
Music Consultant

Magdalena Stelmaszczyk
Assistant Director

Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Screenplay

Barbara Pec-Ślesicka
Production Supervisor

Jan Ossowski
Assistant Camera

Janusz Dziumowicz
Production Assistant

Krystyna Grochowicz
First Assistant Director

Leszek Tarnowski
Assistant Director

Renata Pajchel
Still Photographer

Maria Osiecka-Kuminek
Set Decoration
Media.
















Details.
Release DateFebruary 25, 1977
Original NameCzłowiek z marmuru
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 33m
Filming LocationsKraków · Gdańsk, Poland
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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. Agnieszka, played by Krystyna Janda in her first role, is a young filmmaker who is making her diploma film (a student graduation requirement) on Birkut, whose whereabouts seem to have been lost two decades later. The title refers to the propagandist marble statues made in Birkut's image.
Man of Marble reflects director Wajda's emerging hostility to the Stalinist cultural establishment and its oppressive restrictions on artistic expression. The film's plot foretells the Lenin Shipyard strike of 1980 and the rise of the Solidarity Movement.
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