
Winkel is going to get a pass into the yard. Father of Tomczyk, Mateusz Birkut (hero of the film Man of Marble), then would not allow his son to take part in the student protests in March 1968. Dzidek tells him about Tomczyk, as it turns out - his friend from college. The crowd in front of the gate of Winkel meets a friend, Dzidka (Boguslaw Linda), which previously got a job in Gdańsk television. Winkel as a journalist on behalf of the ruling party can not get through the gate of the yard. He is sent to Gdańsk, where a representative of the authorities Badecki (Franciszek Trzeciak) realizes the importance of his job. Radio journalist, editor Winkel (Marian Opania) is ordered by the deputy chairman of Radio Committee (Janusz Gajos) to achieve coverage compromising Tomczyk. Among them, an important role is played by activist Strike Committee, Maciek Tomczyk (played by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz). In Gdańsk shipyard workers strike continues. ( February 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this section if you can. The specific problem is: text in this section seems to be auto-translated and partially incoherent. This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Because of this it was banned in 1981 by the Polish government. The film was made during the brief thaw in Communist censorship that appeared between the formation of Solidarity in August 1980 and its suppression in December 1981, and as such it is remarkably critical of the Communist regime.


Man of Iron explicitly states that Mateusz was killed in clashes at the shipyards in 1970.

Man of Iron clarifies the ending of Man of Marble, which left the death of Mateusz Birkut ambiguous. The young man is clearly intended as a parallel to Lech Wałęsa (who appears as himself in the movie).
Here, Maciej is a young worker involved in the anti-Communist labour movement, described as "the man who started the Gdańsk Shipyard strike", and a journalist working for the Communist regime's radio station, who is given a task of slandering Maciej. The film continues the story of Maciej Tomczyk, the son of Mateusz Birkut, the protagonist of Wajda's earlier film, Man of Marble. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union. Man of Iron ( Polish: Człowiek z żelaza) is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda.
