Man of Marble 1976
Synopsis
The year 1976. In the corridor of the television building Agnieszka – an almost graduate film maker – is persuading an \'important\' editor into making a movie about Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer and labor leader, whose brilliant career ended suddenly and unexpectedly sometime around 1952. After some negotiations the girl finally gets a tape and necessary equipment. Private \'investigation\' begins, aiming at determining the causes of the success and fall of Birkut. While learning the history of his dramatic life, Agnieszka finds out and discloses the bitter truth about the 1950s – the period of Stalinism in Poland.
Awards
1977 – Gdynia Film Festival – the Journalists Award
1978 – Cannes International Film Festival – FIPRESCI award
1979 – Brussels Film Festival – the Actors Award Crystal Star (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz)
1979 – FEST International Film Festival in Belgrade – Grand Prize
1979 – FEST International Film Festival in Belgrade – the Actors Award (Jerzy Radziwiłłowicz)
1980 – Cartagena Film Festival – Special Jury Prize
About
Year of production:
1976
Genre:
historical drama
Premiere:
25-02-1977
Technical specs:
Color, 153 min.
Production:
X Film Production
Filmmakers
Directed by:
Andrzej Wajda
Written by:
Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Cinematography by:
Edward Kłosiński
Edited by:
Halina Prugar
Music by:
Andrzej Korzyński
Sound by:
Piotr Zawadzki
Set Decoration by:
Allan Starski
Costume Designer:
Lidia Rzeszewska, Wiesława Konopelska
Production Manager:
Barbara Pec-Ślesicka
Cast
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz (Mateusz Birkut and Maciek Tomczyk, Birkut\'s son),
Krystyna Janda (Agnieszka),
Tadeusz Łomnicki (director Jerzy Burski),
Jacek Łomnicki (director Jerzy Burski in the 1950s),
Michał Tarkowski (bricklayer Wincenty Witek, Birkut\'s friend, construction manager of the Katowice Steelworks in the 1970s),
Piotr Cieślak (Michalak, UB officer "looking after" Birkut, "Pagart" worker in the 1970s),
Wiesław Wójcik (comrade Jodła, Party Secretary in Nowa Huta),
Krystyna Zachwatowicz (Hanka Tomczyk, Birkut\'s wife),
Magda Teresa Wójcik (editor),
Bogusław Sobczuk (TV journalist),
Leonard Zajączkowski (Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka\'s cameraman),
Jacek Domański (Agnieszka\'s sound technician),
Zdzisław Kozień (Agnieszka\'s father),
Irena Laskowska (National Muzeum worker),
Wiesław Drzewicz (owner of "Ostoja" in Zakopane, Hanka Tomczyk\'s husband),
Kazimierz Kaczor (UB colonel),
Ewa Ziętek (UB colonel\'s secretary),
Elżbieta Borkowska (blonde at the strippers casting),
Andrzej Grąziewicz (judge presiding at Witek\'s trial),
Edmund Karwański (prosecutor at Witek\'s trial),
Stefania Kornacka,
Henryk Łapiński (Marcin Pawlusiak, Witek\'s co-defendant),
Jerzy Moniak (engineer Moniak, Witek\'s deputy at the Huta Katowice building site),
Irena Oberska,
Zbigniew Płoszaj (sound technician of "Kronika"),
Juliusz Roland (Witek\'s co-defendant),
Maciej Rayzacher (chairman of the ZMP meeting),
Grzegorz Skurski (Agnieszka\'s driver and lighting engineer),
Dorota Stalińska (photojournalist taking pictures of Burski at Okęcie airport),
Zdzisław Szymborski (management representative showered with small gudgeons),
Mariusz Świgoń (building site technician),
Krystyna Wolańska (babysitter of Marysia, Burski\'s daughter),
Andrzej Wykrętowicz (architect)