Man of Marble

Man of Marble
by Andrzej Wajda

Man of Marble
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Actor: Jacek Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Michal Tarkowski, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Brand: Vanguard
Cinematographer: Edward Klosinski
Editor: Halina Prugar-Ketling
Writer: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Polish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 160 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Vanguard Cinema

Movie Reviews of Man of Marble

Movie Review: Man of Marble
Summary: 5 Stars

One of Wajda's most politically daring films, "Marble" was censored upon release, yet it resonates with the same animus for corruption that ultimately drove the Soviets from power. Agnieszka's difficulties with a wary producer and the reluctance of her interview subjects to speak on-camera parallel the story of an idealized worker, movingly depicted by Radziwilowicz, banished for challenging Party authority. Employing a "Citizen Kane"-like story structure, Wajda cleverly satirizes both the filmmaking impulse as well as government distortions of truth.

Summary of Man of Marble

Not only is Andrzej Wajda's award-winning Man of Marble one of the most important films in the history of Polis cinema, it is also one of the most compelling attacks on government corruption ever made. 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.

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