Man of Marble
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Man of Marble (Polish: Człowiek z marmuru) is a 1976 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda. It chronicles the fall of grace of a heroic bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut (played by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), who became the symbol of the worker in Nowa Huta a new socialist city near Kraków. Agnieszka, played by Krystyna Janda in her first role, is a young filmmaker who is making her diploma film on Birkut, whose whereabouts seems to have been lost two decades later. The title seems to have referred to the fact that the heroic worker Birkut became such a famous worker that his image was used for statues in marble.
She has trouble making the movie from archival sources and museum collections until her father suggests that if he were making a film on someone, he would like to find that person first. With this inspiration, the young filmmaker finds his associates and tracks down his ex-wife to locate Birkut's son, Maciej, in the Gdańsk shipyards, a fortunate coincidence for Wajda who later used the same characters for his 1981 film Man of Iron on the Gdansk workers' labor movement. The son, Maciej, and filmmaker, Agnieszka, reappear as characters in Man of Iron.
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