Man of Marble

Czech title

Člověk z mramoru

English title

Man of Marble

Original title

Człowiek z marmuru

Man of Marble (Polish: Człowiek z marmuru) is a 1977 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It chronicles the fall from grace of a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut (played by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an over-achieving worker, in Nowa Huta, a new (real-life) socialist city near Kraków.