The first of Polish director Andrzej Wajda's two Solidarity films, Man of Marble (originally Czlowiek z Marmuru) concerns bricklayer Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Lauded as a national hero in the 1950s due to his skills at his trade, Birkut has inexplicably fallen into obscurity. In making a film of the bricklayer's life, documentary director Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) discovers that the bricklayer used his sudden fame to become involved in labor politics -- whereupon the repressive government did its best to wipe out all traces of his accomplishments. This climactic revelation was, ironically, excised by the Polish censors when Man of Marble was first released. Director Wajda followed this film with Man of Iron, which traced the further political exploits of director Agnieszka and her husband, the son of the unfortunate bricklayer -- also played by Jerzy Radziwilowicz.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 2h 40m
RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
STARRING: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Jacek Lomnicki, Michal Tarkowski
DIRECTOR(S): Andrzej Wajda
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WRITER(S): Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
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