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Man of Marble

Man of Marble

1977 · 153 min · PL · 7.1 (67 votes)
Dir. Andrzej Wajda · Starring Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki, Michał Tarkowski, Piotr Cieślak · Music Andrzej Korzyński · Solidarity Collection
Drama

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.

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A stark, critical examination of a forgotten hero under a repressive regime. It feels like sifting through dusty archives, piecing together a fractured past where truth is a dangerous commodity.

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