Andrzej Wajda comments

• 28
  
  February
  
  2010
  Ray Wentland - Bath
  
  "Man of Iron" HAS to be seen with "Man of Marble" ( I think Polish translations of the titles would be helpful because they are both available through Empik and no doubt other outlets). For lovers of Krakow, the building of Nowa Huta, with some background imformation, sets the scene beautifully within "Man of Marble". For all of the crude commie bashing within IYP, Wajda exposes the cynicism and outright exploitation of the workers by an extremely undemocratic beauracracy. It really was the dictatorship of the proletariat. The two films speak volumes of the refusal of the Polish spirit to be subject to tyranny. Whether it be Russian/Prussian/Austro-Hungarian,Nazi oppression or Soviet proxy government, the "Polish cow" refused to be ridden by its oppressor.