Transcript Man of Marble

MAN OF
MARBLE
By Andrzej Wajda
Man of Marble
(Człowiek z marmuru, 1976)
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Director: Andrzej Wajda.
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Starring: Krystyna Janda,
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
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Time: the 1970s and 1950s.
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Place: Nowa Huta.
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Theme: socialist propaganda
lies and moral corruption of
the system.
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Protagonists: a winner of
Stakhanovite socialist
competition and a young
filmmaker.
Man of Marble: Food For Thought
 What is the meaning of the title?
 What’s special about the film’s composition?
 What are the film’s themes?
 What kinds of characters are there?
 What comparisons can we draw between the
characters?
 What do you make of the ending?
Man of Marble: Composition
Film within a film
The “real” story
A Film About Filmmaking
(Metafilm)
 Self-reflexivity.
 Framing narrative: a
story containing an
embedded story.
 A clash of two
generations of
filmmakers.
 Filmmaking and
ideology.
Montage
Montage means:
1) Editing;
2) Sergei Eisenstein’s idea that adjacent shots should
relate to each other in a dialectic so that A+B=C
(another meaning);
3) Dynamic cutting.
Cutting
 Crosscut. Intermingling the shots of two or more
scenes to suggest parallel action.
 Cut-away. A shot inserted in a scene to show action at
another location.
 Flash cutting. Editing the film into shots of very brief
duration which succeed each other rapidly.
 Continuity cut. Seamlessly and logically joins one
sequence or scene to another. This is an unobtrusive
cut that serves to move the narrative along.
The Story Continued: Man of Iron
(1981)