Man of Marble
Man of Marble is a 1976 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
It chronicles the fall from grace of a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut( played by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an over- achieving worker, in Nowa Huta, a new( real life) socialist city near Kraków.
Agnieszka, played by Krystyna Janda in her first role, is a young filmmaker who is making her diploma film( a student graduation requirement) on Birkut, whose whereabouts seems to have been lost two decades later.
The title refers to the propagandist marble statues made in Birkut's image.
It is somewhat of a surprise that Wajda would have been able to make such a film," sub silentio" attacking the socialist realism of Nowa Huta, revealing the use of propaganda and political corruption during the period of Stalinism.
The film director presaged the loosening grip of the Soviets that came with the Solidarity Movement, though it has been acknowledged by Polish film historians that due to censorship the script languished in development hell since 1962.
The film extensively uses original documentation footage from the construction of Nowa Huta and other subjects of Poland's early communist era, as well as the propagandist/ inspirational music of Stalinist Poland.
Agnieszka has trouble making the film from archival sources and museum collections and from interviews with people whose answers provide partial information on Birkut's life, but who do n't seem to know about his current location or situation.
The authorities decide that the young student digs too deeply into the recent past, and inform her that their permission to create the film is withdrawn.
Her equipment and the materials she gathered are confiscated.
Agnieszka's father speculates that there must be a single specific reason for the authorities' fear of further disclosure and suggests that she should locate Birkut and talk to him to find out more, even if she is no longer involved in making the film.
With this inspiration, Agnieszka tracks down Mateusz's son, Maciej, in the Gdańsk Shipyard.
( Both father and son, Mateusz and Maciej, are played by the same actor: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.)
Agnieszka learns from Maciej that his father died years ago.
The ending of" Man of Marble" leaves the death of Mateusz Birkut ambiguous.
In his script, Wajda had wanted to reveal that Mateusz had been killed in clashes at the shipyards in 1970, a major confrontation that prefigured the rise of Solidarity ten years later, but he was prevented by censorship.
In 1981, Wajda filmed" Man of Iron", a follow- up to" Man of Marble", which depicts Maciej's subsequent involvement in the Polish anti-Communist workers' movement.
" Man of Iron" extensively deals with Mateusz's killing in the clashes of 1970.
Valley of Hunted Men
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Land of Hunted Men
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Querelle
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It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/ director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Witold Wajda
( 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director.
Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d' Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the" Polish Film School".
He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of" A Generation"( 1954)," Kanał"( 1956) and" Ashes and Diamonds"( 1958).
He is considered one of the world's most renowned filmmakers whose works chronicled his native country's political and social evolution and dealt with the myths of Polish national identity offering insightful analyses of the universal element of the Polish experience- the struggle to maintain dignity under the most trying circumstances.
Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:" The Promised Land"( 1975)," The Maids of Wilko"( 1979)," Man of Iron"( 1981) and" Katyń"( 2007).
S. Roy Luby
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The Valley of Hunted Men
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Man of Iron
Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union.
The film continues the story of Maciej Tomczyk, the son of Mateusz Birkut, the protagonist of Wajda's earlier film," Man of Marble".
Here, Maciej is a young worker involved in the anti-Communist labour movement, described as" the man who started the Gdańsk Shipyard strike", and a journalist working for the Communist regime's radio station, who is given a task of slandering Maciej.
The young man is clearly intended as a parallel to Lech Wałęsa( who appears as himself in the movie).
" Man of Iron" clarifies the ending of" Man of Marble", which left the death of Mateusz Birkut ambiguous.
" Man of Iron" explicitly states that Mateusz was killed in clashes at the shipyards in 1970.
The film was made during the brief thaw in Communist censorship that appeared between the formation of Solidarity in August 1980 and its suppression in December 1981, and as such it is remarkably critical of the Communist regime.
Because of this it was banned in 1981 by the Polish government.
The film won the Palme d' Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010.
Hunted Men (1924 film)
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Question: Which film has the director died later, Land Of Hunted Men or Man Of Marble?