Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

10/01/2019 (DE) • 52m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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.

Top Billed 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)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

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

european history

fall of communism

freedom of expression

political documentary

fighting the system

historical documentary

solidarność

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