Čovjek od mramora

For her thesis, student director Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) decides to make a film about Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), a working hero from the 1950s whose fate was deliberately forgotten after being awarded the batter badge, so Agnieszka is forced to look for the cause of it and information about his life in the testimonies of his friends, as well as from the film news of the time, which mostly served propaganda, not informational purposes. As the face and the reverse of the official portrayal come to the fore, the young director also encounters more and more obstacles when trying to compose a true picture of reality. Made according to the script of Alexander Ścibor-Rylski, created back in 1963. but rejected for filming, the film Man of Marble was another milestone in the career of Andrzej Wajda, and in this case it was about his social engagement and commenting on current events in Polish society through a film that will ultimately result in the appearance of the so-called a film of moral restlessness, a series of titles that began the feature film career of directors such as Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Ryszard Bugajski, which was interrupted by the declaration of a state of emergency in Poland at the end of 1981. Like these films, this one dealt with the relationship between the individual and the state, that is, using it to build an ideal image of society. For this purpose, Wajda chose the process of making a 'film in film', which correlated…