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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

20197.0 / 1052 min

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.

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)

John Paul II.

Self (archive footage)

Anna Walentynowicz

Self - Political Activist (archive footage)

Mieczysław Jagielski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Lech Wałęsa

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bronisław Geremek

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Zbigniew Lewicki

Self - Politologist (archive footage)

Jerzy Popiełuszko

Self - Priest (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Crew

Ania Szczepańska

Director

Gunnar Dedio

Executive Producer

Ania Szczepańska

Writer

Christin Schutta

Producer

Nicolás Villegas

Director of Photography

Adam Stanisławski

Sound

Anna Rok

Sound

Jeannette-Maria Giza

Editor

Laurent Eyquem

Original Music Composer

Roman Carsten Keller

Original Music Composer

Tobias Fritzsch

Sound Mixer

Regina Bouchehri

Supervising Producer

Melanie Clausen

Production Manager

Melanie Braun

Production Manager