Man of Marble is an epic film about two periods of Poland’s life, the 1950’s when Poland became a People’s Republic, and was at the height of the Stalinization period, and the 1970’s when a revealing look back of that time takes place through a young film student and a camera crew’s investigation of a former worker’s hero. Agnieska is a determined film student who feels she has found the ideal …showed first 75 words of 542 total…

…showed last 75 words of 542 total…truths of the Stalinist period, her anxious supervisor tries to shut down the film, using the excuse that she’s gone over budget. The film is an excellent example of the repressive life the Polish lived under a Stalinist government. So true to life and so disheartening as it was, it was censored and prohibited from being released for years. Andrezj Wajda is brilliant in his plot and statement of the film Man of Marble.