Andrzej wajda was once a documentary filmmaker in post war poland who at 1st made films of stalinist propaganda indeed man of marble uses some of these earlier films of socialist realism in the earlier style man of marble shows the creativity that flourished once orthodoxy collapsed during de stalinisation there is an unexpected bloom from the.
Man of marble wajda.
Man of marble polish.
Andrzej wajda was once a documentary filmmaker in post war poland who at 1st made films of stalinist propaganda indeed man of marble uses some of these earlier films of socialist realism in the earlier style man of marble shows the creativity that flourished once orthodoxy collapsed during de stalinisation there is an unexpected bloom from the.
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.
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.
Directed by andrzej wajda.
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.
With krystyna janda jerzy radziwilowicz tadeusz lomnicki jacek lomnicki.
More intellectually stimulating than emotionally involving man of marble sees wajda tackle his favourite theme of historical revisionism of reassessing the past and its multiplicity of perspectives and rescuing the truth or at least something more serving people above the state from the myth making.
Wajda s film is a meta fiction in that it s structure of three interwoven realities form.
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.