MAN OF IRON

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A masterful story about the limitations of the press, coupled with real footage of the Solidarity movement strikes, Andrzej Wajda’s MAN OF IRON expands on the plot of its predecessor, MAN OF MARBLE. The film examines the circumstances leading to one of the most crucial historical events of the 20th century in Poland: the 1980 strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard which grew into a broad social movement for workers’ rights. The movie was produced in haste at the express wish of the shipyard workers with the use of their own archives to support the strike. It features, among others, future Nobel Prize winner and Polish president Lech Wałęsa as himself, and captures the passion, tragedy and anxiety of the times. The film won both the Palme d’Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. DIR Andrzej Wajda; SCR Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski. Poland, 1981, b&w/color, 153 min. In Polish with English subtitles. RATED PG

Run Time: 153 Minutes

Opening Date: Sunday, May 24, 2026

Genre: Historical drama

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