Frequently regarded as one of the greatest and most important films to ever come out of Poland, the Oscar nominated and Palm d'Or winning Man Of Iron (Czlowiek z Zelaza) is legendary director's Andrezj Wajda's final and most moving and poignant film regarding the Solidarity Movement and its struggles to gain recognition in his native country.

Following on from his seminal Man Of Marble, Man Of Iron continues the story of Maciej Tomczyk, a young worker involved in the anti-Communist labour movement. In Warsaw in 1980, the Regime sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikes, particularly on Maciek, who has become an inspirational figure in the Union movement following the killing of his father in the December 1970 protests. Posing as a sympathiser to the cause, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, in an effort to undermine and destroy the growing support behind the movement.

The film uses actual news footage of the 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity which it interweaves throughout the stories of a son coming to terms with his father, a couple falling in love, a reporter searching for courage and a nation undergoing historic, if all too fleeting, change.

Following on from Artificial Eye's release earlier this year of Katyn, Wajda's epic Man Of Iron will be released on DVD courtesy of Mr Bongo Films on 1 June 2009 at the RRP of £12.99. As seems to be the trend this week, no extras have been listed.

UPDATE: The release date has now been changed to 29th June 2009.