Man of Marble
by Andrzej Wajda
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Actor: Jacek Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Michal Tarkowski, Tadeusz LomnickiDirector: Andrzej Wajda
Brand: Vanguard
Cinematographer: Edward Klosinski
Editor: Halina Prugar-Ketling
Writer: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Polish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 160 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: VF3418
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product features:
- 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 foo
Movie Reviews of Man of Marble
Movie Review: A serious warning about the crash of the Communism!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie owns that golden touch which characterizes the immortal masterpieces . Wajda made a superb film against the double moral of the struggling Comunist system .
A lost statue in memory of a revolution hero will be the mysterious device to search the truth behind the nasty tearful au revoir of the false homage around a serious disturbance for the Status Quo .
You know as well as me the Totalitarian Regimes hate everything which works out of control because the free will is obviously a clear danger for the State surviving . The statement is very simple : Everybody must be inside the average . And you know what this means : the average always equalize but to bottom , if you are very good in a special field you are beyond the average and this is considered as a deadly sin for this Govern System .
Rememeber those words of Millan Astray : Dead the intelligence . Or Goering sentence : *When I hear the word culture I show the gun *.
And that is what it happened in this case when a extremely naive man deeply convinced about the Regime kindness decides in the name of the State to show how he and his team are capable to built a house in just one day .
The man becomes a popular hero; a raising mass symbol but without the support of the Governement ; so this may be well a double edge weapon .
So the dark arm of the establishment will turn the fate of this man in the great day with a merciless and casual? accident .
This brave film is really absorbing from start to finnish , and you will be involved step by step with this haunting story .
I have not a shadow of doubt this remarkable work was one of the multiple red light signals which would carry to the Perestroika a decade after .
Sublime, terrific, poignant and extraordinary film of this outstanding polish filmmaker.
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.Similar DVD Movies
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