A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
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Title: Man of Iron (1981)
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| Jerzy Radziwilowicz | ... | Maciek Tomczyk / Mateusz Birkut | |
| Krystyna Janda | ... | Agnieszka | |
| Marian Opania | ... | Winkel | |
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Wieslawa Kosmalska | ... | Wieslawa Hulewicz |
| Irena Byrska | ... | Matka Hulewicz | |
| Boguslaw Linda | ... | Dzidek | |
| Lech Walesa | ... | Lech Walesa | |
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Anna Walentynowicz | ... | Anna Walentynowicz |
| Jerzy Borowczak | ... | Stanislaw J. Borowczak (as Stanislaw J. Borowczak) | |
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Zbigniew Lis | ... | Zbigniew Lis |
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Teodor Kudla | ... | Teodor Kudla |
| Franciszek Trzeciak | ... | Badecki | |
| Janusz Gajos | ... | Z-Ca Szefa | |
| Andrzej Seweryn | ... | Kapt. Wirski | |
| Marek Kondrat | ... | Grzenda | |
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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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Music by Andrzej Korzynski
Lyrics by M. Cholwa
Performed by Krystyna Janda (vocal), Jacek Kaczmarski (guitar), Przemyslaw Gintrowski (guitar)
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This was the first, and so far the only, sequel to win the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. It was also the first Polish film to win this prize - the second was Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" in 2002. See more »Quotes
Maciej Tomczyk: You know why? Because students and workers all act alone. When we moved; they held back; now they're moving and we're scared. We'll always lose this way.See more »
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Ballada o Janku WisniewskimMusic by Andrzej Korzynski
Lyrics by M. Cholwa
Performed by Krystyna Janda (vocal), Jacek Kaczmarski (guitar), Przemyslaw Gintrowski (guitar)
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PolandLanguage:
PolishRelease Date:
27 July 1981 (Poland) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Gross USA:
$492,035Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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This film movement, while in no way the most important film movement artistically, considerably helped morally support and unite the Poles into a decade long, almost nation-wide rebellion against the Communist party which bloomed into the freeing of the Polish state from Soviet rule. This was a catalyst for the break-up of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the end of the cold war, and a new stability in Europe, and indeed the world. Only taking this into account can one watch "Czlowiek z Zelaza" and truly appreciate how powerful this film is.