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Film / 1977
Man of Marble
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
The story
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Cast
Krystyna JandaAgnieszka
Jerzy RadziwiłowiczMateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk
Tadeusz ŁomnickiJerzy Burski
Jacek LomnickiJerzy Burski (young)
Michał TarkowskiWitek
Piotr CieślakMichalak
Wiesław WójcikJodła
Krystyna ZachwatowiczHanka Tomczyk
Magda Teresa WójcikEditor
Bogusław SobczukTV Editor
Leonard ZajączkowskiLeonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP
Jacek DomańskiSound Man
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Zdzisław KozieńAgnieszka's Father
Irena LaskowskaMuseum Worker
Wiesław DrzewiczHanka's Husband
Kazimierz KaczorUB Colonel
Ewa ZiętekColonel's Secretary
Elżbieta Borkowska-SzuksztaBlonde
Andrzej GrąziewiczJudge
Edmund KarwańskiProsecutor
Stefania Kornacka
Henryk ŁapińskiMarcin Pawlusiak
Jerzy MoniakEngineer Moniak
Irena OberskaZakopane Houseekeper
Zbigniew PłoszajChronicle Sound Man
Juliusz RolandMieczysław Hertz
Maciej RayzacherZMP Meeting Chairman
Grzegorz SkurskiAgnieszka's Driver
Dorota StalińskaPhotojournalist in Okęcie
Zdzisław SzymborskiBoardroom Member
Mariusz ŚwigońConstruction Technician
Krystyna WolańskaMarysia's Guardian
Andrzej WykrętowiczJan Wołodkiewicz
Feliks FalkFilm Director (uncredited)
Stanisław FrąckowiakParty Member from Warsaw (uncredited)
Witold HoltzMan talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited)
Krzysztof KiersznowskiParty Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)
Jarosław KopaczewskiWorker (uncredited)
Ilona ŁepkowskaOrganiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited)
Stanisław MichalikJudge (uncredited)
Mieczysław GrąbkaChronicle Narrator (voice)
Andrzej SewerynRecord Beating Announcer (voice)
Agnieszka HollandWoman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited)
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