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Politically charged, Cannes Palme d'Or-winning historical drama from Polish filmmaking veteran Andrzej Wajda. Sequel to 1977's Man of Marble.
In Warsaw...
Politically charged, Cannes Palme d'Or-winning historical drama from Polish filmmaking veteran Andrzej Wajda. Sequel to 1977's Man of Marble.
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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"An urgent, nervy narrative conveys all the exhilaration and bewilderment of finding oneself on the very crestline of crucial historical change; and for the viewer, all the retrospective melancholy of knowing that euphoria shattered by subsequent events."
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Time Out
Time Out"It's not criticism but a statement of fact to describe it as more notable as a political than an artistic achievement"
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The New York Times
The New York TimesMan of Iron | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Wajda), 1981 Cannes Film Festival
- Runtime
- 156
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Poland
