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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

2019•52m•7.0/10
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.0/10(3)

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.

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Production

LOOKSfilm, NDR, ARTE

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Corinna Waldbauer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Stanisław Ciosek

Self - Politician

Barbara Labuda

Self - Politician

Agnieszka Holland

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

Pope John Paul II

Self (archive footage)

Anna Walentynowicz

Self - Political Activist (archive footage)

Mieczysław Jagielski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bronisław Geremek

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Zbigniew Lewicki

Self - Politologist (archive footage)

Jerzy Popiełuszko

Self - Priest (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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