477 - Affiche Ancienne Original vintage movie poster for Academy Cinema One on Oxford Street advertising Man of Marble / Czlowiek z marmuru, at a 1977 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Jerzy Radziwilowicz as a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut, who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an overachieving worker, elevated as a hero in a political stunt to increase construction efficiency and brick quotas. The poster features a bricklayer rendered in sharp black outlines with orange skin tones, hunched over a row of freshly laid bricks set against a light blue background; the tagline below reads - One of the most brilliant and important films to come out of Eastern Europe. Printed by Ward & Foxlow Ltd, London. Horizontal. Fair condition, folds, creasing, tears, pinholes, paper losses, staining. Country of issue: UK, designer: Peter Strausfeld, size (cm): 76x102, year of printing: 1970s.