the usual comparison and inspiration be with citizen kane and but there be important difference . one be that the hero here really be a citizen a comrade in his own eye and the other be the difference in the person try to learn about him . the reporter in citizen kane be an experienced hack who be indifferent except to the front page while agnieska be at the start of her possible career and make her graduation film and the one which will make her name and determine her future and look for a story that matter in itself while indeed and agnieska story be as important to the film a birkut and in some way her story reflect his . she work as determinedly a any stakhanovite and the way she bind her helpers the film crew and archivist and people who know birkut to her in her task and to think it worth do for themselves mean that she create a shock force as real a and more effective than birkut display team of brickies . again and the character we meet who know birkut all have a relationship with poland as well a birkut and their own career build worker to political prisoner to industrialist while chekist to strip club manager while propaganda film director to . film director while gymnast to drunkard reflect the change a they and communist poland age . there hope the old cameraman blast into admiration and respect for agnieska when she show she will do his job for him . indeed and agnieska be a wonderful character and her long limb wrap round her and carry everything i possess round everywhere and smoke cigarette avidly and demand wide screen and like an american movie you can see why the party and her superior want her to succeed and why they fear her . not only that and but the film be fair to communist poland we see agnieska home and realise that it be because of the opportunity give by communism that she can leave the boundary impose on her railway worker father and just a birkut only achieve fame a a worker in a supposedly worker state . it be because both of them take rhetoric seriously that they be finally unsuccessful . after all and we never do know who sabotage the brick and burn birkut hand and and it doesn not really matter in a state where rhetoric be what count .