The year 1980. Workers of the Gdansk Shipyard are on strike. The son of Mateusz Birkut, Maciek Tomczyk, is one of the shipyard workers and also an activist of the strike committee. Winkel, a radio reporter, is given an assignment to make a report which would disgrace Tomczyk and the strike committee. The film is a sequel to "Man of Marble" (1976).
Winner of the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Człowiek z Żelaza
1981
12 years
154 min.
Fiction
Poland
Colorido, P&B
Andrzej Wajda
Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Edward Kłosiński
Halina Prugar
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Byrska, Wiesława Kosmalska, Bogusław Linda
Zespół Filmowy X
Andrzej Korzynski
Zebra Film Studio
5, 40