Kino Polska

Two films by Andrzej Wajda that focus on important eras in Polish history – the Stalinist period and the strikes at the shipyards in Gdansk. CZŁOWIEK Z MARMURU (Man of Marble, Andrzej Wajda, Poland 1977, Nov. 4) The film student Agnieszka is planning a documentary on a "hero of labor" of the 1950s. In the basement of a museum she comes upon the discarded statue of the worker Mateusz Birkut and starts researching the "man of marble" in archives and old newsreels.