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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
7.0 / 10• 2019• 52m•NR• German
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
CW
Corinna Waldbauer
Self - Narrator (voice)
LeadSC
Stanisław Ciosek
Self - Politician
BL
Barbara Labuda
Self - Politician
Agnieszka Holland
Self - Filmmaker
JP
Jacek Petrycki
Self - Cameraman
MB
Michał Bukojemski
Self - Cameraman
BK
Basil Kerski
Self - Journalist
TM
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Self - Politician (archive footage)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ania Szczepańska's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
