Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
- Documentary
- History
- TV Movie
10/1/2019
52
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.
- Director:
- Writer:
- 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
Cast
Corinna WaldbauerSelf - Narrator (voice)
Stanisław CiosekSelf - Politician- Barbara LabudaSelf - Politician
- Agnieszka HollandSelf - Filmmaker
Jacek PetryckiSelf - Cameraman- Michał BukojemskiSelf - Cameraman
- Basil KerskiSelf - Journalist
- Tadeusz MazowieckiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- John Paul II.Self (archive footage)
- Anna WalentynowiczSelf - Political Activist (archive footage)
- Mieczysław JagielskiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Lech WałęsaSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Bronisław GeremekSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Wojciech JaruzelskiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Zbigniew LewickiSelf - Politologist (archive footage)
- Jerzy PopiełuszkoSelf - Priest (archive footage)