The final part of Andrzej Wajda’s informal trilogy - film screening at PVR Select City walk, A-3, IInd Floor, Saket > 6:30pm on 3rd December 2013

Time : 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : PVR Cinemas, Select City Walk, Plot #A3, District Centre, Saket, New Delhi - 110017
Venue Info : www.selectcitywalk.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Malviya Nagar (Yellow Line) Exit Gate - 3'
Area : Saket

Event Description : Film screening as part of Kinoteka Polish Film Festival in India.
The final part of Andrzej Wajda’s informal trilogy that began with Man of Marble (1976) and continued with Man of Iron (1981), his new film tells the story of Lech Wałesa, the electrician who became leader of the Solidarity union, going on to win the Nobel Prize and become President of Poland. The film charts his life from the suppression of the 1970 workers’ protests through to the round table agreement with the government in 1980, the imposition of Martial Law in 1981, to the fall of Communism in 1989. As played by Robert Wieckiewicz, Wałesa comes across as a charismatic but frequently contradictory figure – ‘a man of the people’ who derives his strength from ‘inner anger’, distrustful of intellectuals, but never less than forthright in his dealings with authority. 
The film’s strength lies in its portrayal of the mundane and the political, the story of an ordinary working man whose actions triggered a revolution.

Awards:
- 49th Chicago International Film Festival 
- Silver Hugo award awarded to Robert Wieckiewicz for Best Actor
- premiered at the Venice International Film Fetival (non-competing) where it received a standing ovation 
- screened at the Toronto Film Festival as a “special presentation”
- the film opens the upcoming 25th Polish Film Festival in America to be held between Nov 8-24
- WALESA. MAN OF HOPE is the Polish submission to the Academy award in the foreign language category for 2014

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