Man of Marble

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

Drama

Krystyna Janda

Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

(Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk)

Tadeusz Łomnicki

Jacek Lomnicki

(Jerzy Burski (young))

Michał Tarkowski

Piotr Cieślak

Wiesław Wójcik

Krystyna Zachwatowicz

(Hanka Tomczyk)

Magda Teresa Wójcik

Bogusław Sobczuk

Leonard Zajączkowski

(Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP)

Jacek Domański

Zdzisław Kozień

(Agnieszka's Father)

Irena Laskowska

(Museum Worker)

Wiesław Drzewicz

(Hanka's Husband)

Kazimierz Kaczor

Ewa Ziętek

(Colonel's Secretary)

Elżbieta Borkowska-Szukszta

Andrzej Grąziewicz

Edmund Karwański

Stefania Kornacka

Henryk Łapiński

(Marcin Pawlusiak)

Jerzy Moniak

(Engineer Moniak)

Irena Oberska

(Zakopane Houseekeper)

Zbigniew Płoszaj

(Chronicle Sound Man)

Juliusz Roland

(Mieczysław Hertz)

Maciej Rayzacher

(ZMP Meeting Chairman)

Grzegorz Skurski

(Agnieszka's Driver)

Dorota Stalińska

(Photojournalist in Okęcie)

Zdzisław Szymborski

(Boardroom Member)

Mariusz Świgoń

(Construction Technician)

Krystyna Wolańska

(Marysia's Guardian)

Andrzej Wykrętowicz

(Jan Wołodkiewicz)

Feliks Falk

(Film Director (uncredited))

Stanisław Frąckowiak

(Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited))

Witold Holtz

(Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited))

Krzysztof Kiersznowski

(Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited))

Jarosław Kopaczewski

(Worker (uncredited))

Ilona Łepkowska

(Organiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited))

Stanisław Michalik

(Judge (uncredited))

Mieczysław Grąbka

(Chronicle Narrator (voice))

Andrzej Seweryn

(Record Beating Announcer (voice))

Agnieszka Holland

(Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited))