MAN OF MARBLE CZŁOWIEK Z MARMURU ANDRZEJ WAJDA

  • POLAND

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  • POLISH

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  • 1977

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  • 165 mins

  • FILM COURTESY

    Polish Institute, New Delhi

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became apropaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

1950 ರ ದಶಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾಪಗಾಂಡಾದ ಹೀರೊ ಆಗಿ ಮೆರೆದು ನಂತರ ಜನಪ್ರಿಯತೆ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಕಣ್ಮರೆಯಾದ ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಕೆಲಸಗಾರ ಮಾಟಿಯಸ್ಜ್ ಬಿರ್ಕುಟ್‌ಗೆ ಏನಾಯಿತು ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಕಂಡುಹಿಡಿಯಲು ಪೋಲಿಷ್ ಯುವ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಹೊರಡುವ ಕಥೆಯನ್ನು ಈ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಹೇಳುತ್ತದೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Andrzej Wajda

Screenplay :

Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski

Director of Photography :

Edward Klosinski

Editor :

Halina Prugar-Ketling

Music :

Andrzej Korzynski

Sound :

Piotr Zawadzki

Cast :

Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Tadeusz Łomnicki

Awards - Winner :

Cannes FF, 1977 (FIPRESCI Prize), Polish FF (Critics Award), New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1981 (Special Award), Zlote Kaczki, Poland, 2009 (Best Polish Actor in period pieces)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

Cannes FF, 1977 (Un Certain Regard Award), New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1981 (Best Foreign Language Film)

Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016) was a towering Polish filmmaker and a key figure of the Polish Film School who shaped postwar European cinema. Born in Suwałki, he joined the anti-Nazi resistance as a teenager, experiences that deeply informed his work. He studied painting in Kraków and film directing in Łódź. Wajda gained international recognition with his wartime trilogy A GENERATION (1954), CANAL (1957), and ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1959). His prolific career blended history, political critique, and humanism in films such as THE BIRCH WOOD (1971), THE PROMISED LAND (1975), MAN OF MARBLE (1977), MAN OF IRON (1981), and DANTON (1982).