Der Mann aus Marmor (1977)
66KDer Mann aus Marmor: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki. A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
“I first learned of Andrzej Wajda when he won an honorary Academy Award and made his acceptance speech in his native Polish. In the years since, Iu0026#39;ve watched some of his movies. Iu0026#39;ve finally seen his u0026quot;Czlowiek z marmuruu0026quot; (u0026quot;Man of Marbleu0026quot; in English). It focuses on a filmmaker (Krystyna Janda) putting together a production about a man (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) who got held up as the paradigm of a heroic Stakhanovite but whose whereabouts are now unknown. Then of course arises the issue of how much sheu0026#39;ll be allowed to focus on this man without angering the authorities.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s safe to say that this movie presaged the rise of the Solidarity movement in its depiction of the workers. Wajda was already inclined to direct independently of the governmentu0026#39;s confines, and he became one of the most innovative directors of all, along the lines of Stanley Kubrick and Federico Fellini. In the end, this is one that you have to see. I hope to see more of Wajdau0026#39;s movies.”
