Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
2019•52m•7.0•Released
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
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
Writer
Ania Szczepańska
Languages
English, French, German
Studio
LOOKSfilm
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)
Bronisław Geremek
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Zbigniew Lewicki
Self - Politologist (archive footage)
Production
Company
LOOKSfilm
Company
NDR
Company
ARTE
Producer
Christin Schutta
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