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CZŁOWIEK Z ŻELAZA
(MAN OF IRON)
The continuation of Wajda’s picture of 1976 – ‘Man of Marble’ (‘Człowiek z marmuru’). The year 1980. Workers of the Gdansk Shipyard are on strike. The son of Mateusz Birkut, Maciek Tomczyk, is one of the shipyard workers and also an activist of the strike committee. Winkel, a radio reporter, is given an assignment to make a report which would disgrace Tomczyk and the strike committee. However, after the conversation with Agnieszka – now Tomczyk’s wife – imprisoned for supporting the strike, he changes his view on the demands of the workers. He decides never to make the report.
Directed by : Andrzej WAJDA
Year of production: 1981
Durée : 153 minutes
Year of production: 1981
Durée : 153 minutes
Credits
- Andrzej WAJDA Director
- Aleksander SCIBOR-RYLSKI Screenplay
- Edward KLOSINSKI Director of Photography
- Andrzej KORZYNSKI Music
- Jerzy ZAWADZKI Sound
- Halina PRUGAR Editing
- Allan STARSKI Production Design
Casting
- Jerzy RADZIWILOWICZ Maciek Tomczyk, Birkut's son – Mateusz Birkut
- Krystyna JANDA
- Marian OPANIA
- Irena BYRSKA Hulewicz's mother
- Wieslawa KOSMALSKA
- Boguslaw LINDA
- Franciszek TRZECIAK
- Janusz GAJOS vice president of the Radiocomittee
- Andrzej SEWERYN captain Wirski
- Marek KONDRAT
- Jerzy TRELA Antoniak, opposition activist
- Krzysztof JANCZAR Kryska, Maciek's friend in 1970
- Krystyna ZAOWICZACHWATOWICZ-WAJDA Hanka Tomczyk, Birkut's wife
Contacts
Production
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(ORIGINALLY) ZESPOL FILMOWY X (RIGHTHOLDER) STUDIO FILMOWE ZEBRA
Pulawska 61
02-595
WARSAW Poland
T: 4822 845 54 84[email protected]
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