View Item - RU-M001

Language:
Other
Duration:
160 minutes
Catalog Num:
RU-M001
Title:
Man of Marble -- LOCATED IN I.A.S. OFFICE
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
International Studies

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

Winner of the prestigious Internatioal Critics Prize at Cannes, Man of Marble is a masterpiece of Eastern European cinema. Man of Marble, like Citizen Kane, takes the form of an investigation into a man's life throught recollections of several characters.A filmmaker uncovers the explosive facts behind a once-celebrated worker's elevation to stardomhis subsequent downfall and disgrace and his eventual disappearance. A political portrait painted on an epic sclae, Wajad's film reveals the opportunism of the 70s through an examination of the injustices of the 50s in Stalinist Poland Director: Andrzej Wajda. Color. Country: Russia. Subtitled. (I.A.S. now located in Old McMillan 254.)

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