Man of Marble
Feb 25 1977
•3h 33m
•Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Cast
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Krystyna Janda
Agnieszka
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Jerzy Burski
Jacek Lomnicki
Jerzy Burski (young)
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