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Man of Marble - DVD *NEW

Starring: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Format: REGION 1 DVD
Director: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzeja Wajdy
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Runtime: 165 minutes
Rating: Not Rated

Retail Price: AU $19.95

	Description		Special Features		Cast		Credits		Reviews
Andrzej Wajda's controversial attack on the brutality of the Stalinism that held Poland in its thrall during the 1950s stars Krystyna Janda as Agnieszka, whose final project for film school is a documentary investigation into the fate of 1950s worker-hero Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Birkut seems to have disappeared without a trace, but Agnieszka, probing the past, discovers the Herculean bricklayer to have been an honest yet painfully naive figure who unblinkingly swallowed Soviet propaganda. Indeed, Agnieszka unearths censored agitprop footage featuring Birkut as a willing promotional tool of party bosses. Interviewing the propagandists, she learns of the actual misery of the bricklayer's life during the period of his fame and of the manner in which his existence was erased from party records once he had the audacity to try to use his renown to greater political effect. As her research brings her increasingly closer to the ugly truths of the Stalinist era, Agnieszka's anxious superior tries to shut down her film, using the excuse that she's gone over budget. The inexorable power of Wajda's indictment of the rigidity of Stalinism--and the vigor of his celebration of naturalness and authenticity--makes this arguably his best film since his classic World War II trilogy (A GENERATION, KANAL, ASHES AND DIAMONDS). Rating: Not Rated Rating Reason: n/a Runtime: 165 minutes DVD Code: Region 1 US, CA Genre: Foreign Films Color: B&W and Color Rating: DVD Features: Region [unknown] Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Polish Additional Release Material: Tribute To and Interview With Andrzej Wajda Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz Andrzej Wajda, Andrzeja Wajdy Andrzej Wajda's controversial attack on the brutality of the Stalinism that held Poland in its thrall during the 1950s stars Krystyna Janda as Agnieszka, whose final project for film school is a documentary investigation into the fate of 1950s worker-hero Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Birkut seems to have disappeared without a trace, but Agnieszka, probing the past, discovers the Herculean bricklayer to have been an honest yet painfully naive figure who unblinkingly swallowed Soviet propaganda. Indeed, Agnieszka unearths censored agitprop footage featuring Birkut as a willing promotional tool of party bosses. Interviewing the propagandists, she learns of the actual misery of the bricklayer's life during the period of his fame and of the manner in which his existence was erased from party records once he had the audacity to try to use his renown to greater political effect. As her research brings her increasingly closer to the ugly truths of the Stalinist era, Agnieszka's anxious superior tries to shut down her film, using the excuse that she's gone over budget. The inexorable power of Wajda's indictment of the rigidity of Stalinism--and the vigor of his celebration of naturalness and authenticity--makes this arguably his best film since his classic World War II trilogy (A GENERATION, KANAL, ASHES AND DIAMONDS). () A documentarian in Stalinist Poland risks the disapproval of her supervisors when she begins investigating the identity of a mysterious factory worker elevated to the status of national hero--then erased from public record entirely. () Copyright 1976 Film Polski. () "...An ultimately optimistic film..." Sight and Sound (09/01/1979) "...Extraordinary....Courageous..." New York Times (01/23/1981) "...This masterpiece from Andrez Wajda, Poland's most celebrated director, foreshadowed the Solidarity movement..." USA Today (10/19/1990)

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