Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

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.

Director: Ania Szczepańska

Cast

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Corinna Waldbauer

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Stanisław Ciosek

Self - Politician

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Barbara Labuda

Self - Politician

Agnieszka Holland

Self - Filmmaker

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Jacek Petrycki

Self - Cameraman

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Michał Bukojemski

Self - Cameraman

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Basil Kerski

Self - Journalist

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Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Pope John Paul II

Self (archive footage)

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Anna Walentynowicz

Self - Political Activist (archive footage)