Człowiek Z Marmuru

What if a Hero of Socialist Labour no longer wishes to keep up the charade constructed around him since the ideology that inspired him has proven illusionary? And what if, decades later, a film student who still believes in the ideals she was imbued with during her student years resolves to shoot a film on the life of this hero of yesteryear? Why, although Stalinism is supposedly now considered passé, is she having obstacles placed in her path? In any case Mateusz Birkut, one time Stakhanovite bricklayer from socialist model city Nowa Huta, is now seemingly impossible to trace, with student Agnieszka, played by Krystyna Janda in her movie debut, only gradually able to draw nearer to her subject, along the way meeting contemporary witnesses who benefitted from Birkut's rise to fame, as well as those who doubted his resolve to turn his back on the system. Ultimately it is in Gdańsk, where the authorities shot at striking workers in December 1970, that she finds his son Maciek ... PN