MAN OF MARBLE

A young film student in 1970s Kraków is working on her diploma film. She focuses on the life of a bricklayer from the 1950s, Mateusz Birkut, who became a proletariat hero by advocating for workers’ rights and housing for everyone. Her supervisor doesn’t approve of the subject, makes his excuses and halts the film’s production. Now she needs to find a way to finish it somehow. Looking at the story of one man’s heroism from the perspective of one woman’s passion project, Wajda outlines the bravery of humanity, and how with each generation there will always be something worth standing up for. The film won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes as well as the Critics award at the Polish Film Festival.