Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

The read

It runs a compact 52m.

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Ania SzczepańskaDirector
• Ania SzczepańskaWriter
• Laurent EyquemOriginal Music Composer
• Roman Carsten KellerOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Corinna WaldbauerSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Stanisław CiosekSelf - Politician
• Barbara LabudaSelf - Politician
• Agnieszka HollandSelf - Filmmaker
• Jacek PetryckiSelf - Cameraman
• Michał BukojemskiSelf - Cameraman
• Basil KerskiSelf - Journalist
• Tadeusz MazowieckiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
• Pope John Paul IISelf (archive footage)
• Anna WalentynowiczSelf - Political Activist (archive footage)
• Mieczysław JagielskiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
• Lech WałęsaSelf - Politician (archive footage)

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