Man of Marble is an epic film about two periods of Poland's life, the 1950's when Poland became a People's Republic, and was at the height of the Stalinization period, and the 1970's when a revealing look back of that time takes place through a young film student and a camera crew's investigation of a former worker's hero.
Agnieska is a determined film student who feels she has found the ideal subject for her diploma film: an investigative documentary on former post-war working-class hero Mateusz Birkut. Birkut was a leader and a public figure who becomes unpopular with the communist government and disappears from the public eye. Her producer reluctantly agrees to the project, yet he holds reservations for the possible political implications the film could produce.
Agnieska conducts her first intervi
The film is an excellent example of the repressive life the Polish lived under a Stalinist government. So true to life and so disheartening as it was, it was censored and prohibited from being released for years. Andrezj Wajda is brilliant in his plot and statement of the film Man of Marble.
ew with a man named Burski who was a renowned filmmaker who found the photogenic Birkut in the industrial town of Nowa Huta. He decided to showcase the young man in a propaganda filled documentary known as "Architects of Our Happiness". With a support team of bricklayers including his best friend, Witek, Birkut sets a record for laying bricks and becomes a hero to the people. Birkut is publicized as an exemplary worker, a Stakhanovite, and is honored for his skill and productivity with larger than life posters h
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