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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- LOOKSfilm, NDR, ARTE
Keywords
- berlin wall
- iron curtain
- trade union
- anti-communism
- human rights
- labor union
- shipyard
- communist propaganda
- workers union
- fight for justice
- 1980s
- political repression
- warsaw, poland
- state crimes
- dictatorship aftermath
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Top Cast
Corinna Waldbauer as Self - Narrator (voice)
Stanisław Ciosek as Self - Politician
Barbara Labuda as Self - Politician
Agnieszka Holland as Self - Filmmaker
Jacek Petrycki as Self - Cameraman
Michał Bukojemski as Self - Cameraman
Basil Kerski as Self - Journalist
Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Top Crew
Ania Szczepańska · Director, Writer
Roman Carsten Keller · Composer
Laurent Eyquem · Composer
Nicolás Villegas · Cinematographer
Jeannette-Maria Giza · Editor
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