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Man of Marble

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Man of Marble

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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 star rating of 4 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Employing a "talking heads" style redolent of both Citizen Kane and the polemics of Jean-Luc Godard, this is a superbly controlled treatise on the power of the Party, the transience of reputation and the veracity of visual evidence. Expertly manufacturing "contemporary" newsreel footage, Andrzej Wajda turns a pseudo-documentary into a disturbing thriller as film student Krystyna Janda relentlessly investigates the part played by the Communist authorities in the tragedy of Mateusz Birkut, a Stakhanovite hero of the 1950s who was destroyed when his influence became too great. Withheld for four years, this is still a towering achievement, in spite of its state-imposed ending.

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rolenameMateusz BirkutJerzy RadziwilowiczAgnieszkaKrystyna JandaJerzy BurskiTadeusz LomnickiYounger BurskiJacek LomnickiWitekMichal Tarkowski

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rolenameDirectorAndrzej Wajda

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