---
title: 'Man of Marble (1977)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Andrzej Wajda'
released: '1977-02-25'
runtime_minutes: 157
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Poland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/man-of-marble-1977'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075902/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Man of Marble (1977)

1977 · 157 min · Drama · Poland

Original title: Człowiek z marmuru

## Synopsis

Man of Marble is a 1977 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It chronicles the fall from grace of a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut, who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an over-achieving worker, in Nowa Huta, a new (real-life) socialist city near Kraków. Agnieszka, played by Krystyna Janda in her first role, is a young filmmaker who is making her diploma film on Birkut, whose whereabouts seem to have been lost two decades later. The title refers to the propagandist marble statues made in Birkut's image.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Andrzej Wajda](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrzej-wajda)
- **Screenplay:** [Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksander-scibor-rylski)
- **Director of Photography:** [Edward Klosinski](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-klosinski)
- **Editor:** [Halina Prugar-Ketling](https://cinepixo.com/people/halina-prugar-ketling)

## Cast

- [Feliks Falk](https://cinepixo.com/people/feliks-falk)
- [Irena Laskowska](https://cinepixo.com/people/irena-laskowska)
- [Wiesław Wójcik](https://cinepixo.com/people/wies-aw-wojcik)
- [Tadeusz Łomnicki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tadeusz-omnicki)
- [Zdzisław Szymborski](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdzis-aw-szymborski)
- [Andrzej Grąziewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrzej-graziewicz)
- [Ilona Łepkowska](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilona-epkowska)
- [Kazimierz Kaczor](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazimierz-kaczor)
- [Krystyna Zachwatowicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/krystyna-zachwatowicz)
- [Jerzy Radziwilowicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerzy-radziwilowicz)
- [Wiesław Drzewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/wies-aw-drzewicz)
- [Dorota Stalińska](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorota-stalinska)
- [Jarosław Kopaczewski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaros-aw-kopaczewski)
- [Magda Teresa Wójcik](https://cinepixo.com/people/magda-teresa-wojcik)
- [Krystyna Janda](https://cinepixo.com/people/krystyna-janda)

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