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Man of Iron (1981)

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Director:

Andrzej Wajda

Starring:

Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Byrska, Wieslawa Kosmalska, Boguslaw Linda

Genres:

Drama, Historical Drama

Origin:

Poland

Certificate:

M

Languages:

Polish

Subtitles:

English

Running Time:

147 min

Man of Iron

synopsis


This exhilarating, seemlessly woven "documentary" of fictional footage tells the story of the 1980 Polish Solidarity strike at the Gdansk shipyard through the eyes of an alcoholic TV journalist.

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the 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 people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER 1981 CANNES FESTIVAL

 
 

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