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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

2019

52 minutes

DocumentaryHistoryTV 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 Cast

Corinna Waldbauer headshot

Corinna Waldbauer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Stanisław Ciosek headshot

Stanisław Ciosek

Self - Politician

Barbara Labuda headshot

Barbara Labuda

Self - Politician

Agnieszka Holland headshot

Agnieszka Holland

Self - Filmmaker

Jacek Petrycki headshot

Jacek Petrycki

Self - Cameraman

Michał Bukojemski headshot

Michał Bukojemski

Self - Cameraman

Basil Kerski headshot

Basil Kerski

Self - Journalist

Tadeusz Mazowiecki headshot

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Self - Politician (archive footage)

John Paul II. headshot

John Paul II.

Self (archive footage)

Anna Walentynowicz headshot

Anna Walentynowicz

Self - Political Activist (archive footage)

Mieczysław Jagielski headshot

Mieczysław Jagielski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Lech Wałęsa headshot

Lech Wałęsa

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bronisław Geremek headshot

Bronisław Geremek

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Wojciech Jaruzelski headshot

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Zbigniew Lewicki headshot

Zbigniew Lewicki

Self - Politologist (archive footage)

Jerzy Popiełuszko headshot

Jerzy Popiełuszko

Self - Priest (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev headshot

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self - Politician (archive footage)