Čovjek od željeza

Maciek Tomczyk (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz) is an undergraduate student and shipyard worker leading the strike. The blackmailed radio journalist Winkel (Marian Opania) was tasked by his superiors to investigate Maciek's background and find compromising evidence in order to portray him as a foreign mercenary, all under the pretext of making a documentary about him. Workers do not allow Winkel access to the shipyard, so he is forced to ask for information from people who know him, and so he meets Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda), Maciek's wife who met him while filming a film about his father Mateusz Birkut. Refusing to carry out his task, Winkel manages to enter the shipyard and attend the signing of an agreement between the government and the strikers, whose requirement was the establishment of an independent trade union. The scene of the murdered worker carried by his comrades in the street laid on the door should have been the last scene in the film Marble Man, which would explain the fate of the Birkut workers, but it had to be thrown out due to the pressure of censorship because it alluded to a strike by a shipbuilder in 1970 who was suffocated in blood. Andrzej Wajda used it in the film Man of Iron, whose creation is related, of course, to the workers of the Gdansk shipyard who, after watching the film Man of Marble, required the director to make a film about them and their struggle. As in its predecessor, Wajda repeated the process of filming a 'film in a film', it is also divided…