Czlowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble)

Czlowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble)

Czlowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble)
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Actor: Jacek Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Michal Tarkowski, Tadeusz Lomnicki
DVD: Region Code 1
Format: DVD, NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Musicrama/Koch

Movie Reviews of Czlowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble)

Movie Review: Andzej Wajda: Czlowiek Z Marmuru (1976)
Summary: 5 Stars

One of the most important movies in history of Polish filmaking! Winner of Cannes Festival in 1978.
The originality of Andrzej Wajda's film Man of Marble lies in the fact that it is not original (what can be less original than the fate of a labour-leader from the stalinist era?).

The beauty of this exceptional film lies in the complexity of the director's attitude towards Birkut, a representative - perfect in his submissiveness - of the whole miserable, alienated period. Wajda wants to communicate two opposing truths: first, that stalinism was a disaster and second, that the people who believed in it - and whom it consequently crushed - were driven by an honest spirit of idealism. It hasn't been easy to juxtapose these two messages, but Wajda has succeeded completely. Like every artist worth his name, he began not with the typical, but with the individual. Before Birkut became a lead labourer he possessed all the virtues and vices which have always been a constant element of humanity, regardless of place and time. Disguised by the label of socialist hero were humility and decency - qualities which made him a real hero. What was the effect of this delicate operation? Stalinism has been unconditionally condemned, but socialism as an idea and utopia seems to be saved.

The film is strictly consistent in form, which leaves no room for sentimentalism, so easy to introduce. The action takes place among the bare walls of the shipyard and office buildings, and it draws us in like a detective story, one, however, in which we don't search for the criminal but for historical truth. The only feeling is one of regret that the problems, which caused so much suffering in the past, have not been fully solved

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