Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

7.0

2019

0h 52m

English

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Overview

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Director

Ania Szczepańska

Producer

Christin Schutta

Cast

Corinna Waldbauer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Stanisław Ciosek

Self - Politician

Barbara Labuda

Self - Politician

Agnieszka Holland

Self - Filmmaker

Jacek Petrycki

Self - Cameraman

Michał Bukojemski

Self - Cameraman

Basil Kerski

Self - Journalist

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Pope John Paul II

Self (archive footage)

Anna Walentynowicz

Self - Political Activist (archive footage)

Mieczysław Jagielski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Lech Wałęsa

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe