Man of Iron

• Jerzy Radziwilowicz Maciek Tomczyk
• Krystyna Janda: Agnieszka
• Marian Opania: Editor- angle
• Bogusław Linda: Dzidek
• Janusz Gajos: Z- Ca S ® EFA
• Andrzej Seweryn: Captain Wirski
• Marek Kondrat: Grzenda
• Krystyna Zachwatowicz: Hanka Tomczyk

Man of Iron (in Polish Człowiek żelaza z ) is the sequel to the film Man of Marble. The film was shot in the relatively liberal period from the year 1980 and the proclamation of martial law in Poland ( December 1981). Portrayed is a fictional story in which the radio editor to collect angle material against the Solidarity member Maciek Tomczyk.

Content

The radio editor- angle receives from the top of the order to travel to Gdansk to gather there evidence against the Solidarity member Maciej Tomczyk. Angle goal is to reach the striking Lenin Shipyard. While researching learns angle Maciej's Agnieszka ( Krystyna Janda played by ), whose mother and an old classmate Maciej know. Above all, they learn by angle from the career of trade unionist. The chronological retrospective begins with the Polish March riots in 1968. Maciej is at this time a student leader and tries to persuade his father that he convinced the shipyard workers, mitzumarschieren with the students. His father refuses. In 1970 a revolt of the workers in Poland. This time it is the students who refuse to support the protest movement. Maciej's father is shot during the unrest of the citizen militia ZOMO. After Maciej suffers a fit of rage during a gathering of students, he is admitted to a mental hospital and decides to cancel his studies to become workers.

Maciej begins to work in the yard, but was released after a short time because he tried to organize the workers and to make an exhibition about his father's death in his apartment. Shortly before the opening, this is prevented by the personnel manager of the shipyard. After losing his job Maciej begins underground to write letters of protest. When handing out leaflets he is apprehended and detained for three months in jail. As Maciej comes free again, he starts in the Gdansk shipyard work. Other workers and he begin to build a protest movement that breaks out in the fall of 1980. The result of this strike is the founding of the Solidarity trade union. As angle and learns after the details of the story, he changes sides. He enters the bestreikte shipyard and announces his place at the radio there.

Maciej, his wife and his father appear already in the first film, Man of Marble, on. The audience learns now the full extent of the tragic end Mateusz Birkuts. At the end of the first film seeks Agnieszka, a young director, Maciej, the son of Mateusz Birkut on. About life Birkuts she had made a report and now wants to know what he's doing now. By Maciej she learns of his father's death. In the last scene we see Agnieszka and Maciej full of optimism in the corridors of film and television studios. Only in the sequel we learn that Agnieszka fails with their project and loses her job.

Reviews

" A politically committed film, created from the immediacy of the situation; a passionate plea for human rights, democracy and trust in our own strength. "

Awards

The film participated in the competition at the International Film Festival of Cannes in 1981 and won the Palme d'Or. Andrzej Wajda's film was also nominated for Best Foreign Film in 1982 for an Oscar in the category.