movie poster for MAN OF MARBLE

Flicks ID

7153

Cert

PG

Running time

160 mins

Country

Language

Format

VHS

MAN OF MARBLE (1979)

ANDRZEJ WAJDA

Plot

Wajda's slice of Polish history takes the form of an inquiry by a young film graduate into the fate after reward, retribution and rehabilitation of a 50s 'worker's hero', a record breaking bricklayer. Film as evidence is stripped of its authority, monochrome flashbacks represent propogandist archive footage as Wajda builds his detection story. A classic piece of film making.