Man of Iron
A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change.
In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests.
Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Jerzy Radziwilowicz - Tomczyk
Krystyna Janda - Agnieszka
Marian Opania - Winkiel
Irene Byrska - Anna Hulewicz's Mother
Boguslaw Linda - Radio and Television Technician Dzidek
Wieslawa Kosmalska - Anna
Andrzej Seweryn - Captain Wirski
Krzysztof Janczer - Kryszka
Production Co.
Film Unit X
Produced by
Andrzej Wajda
Studio
Film Polski
Writer
Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
Music
Andrzej Korzynski
