Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
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
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Corinna Waldbauer as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Stanisław Ciosek as Self - Politician |
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Barbara Labuda as Self - Politician |
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Agnieszka Holland as Self - Filmmaker |
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Jacek Petrycki as Self - Cameraman |
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Michał Bukojemski as Self - Cameraman |
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Basil Kerski as Self - Journalist |
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Pope John Paul II as Self (archive footage) |
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Anna Walentynowicz as Self - Political Activist (archive footage) |
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Mieczysław Jagielski as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Lech Wałęsa as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Bronisław Geremek as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Wojciech Jaruzelski as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Zbigniew Lewicki as Self - Politologist (archive footage) |
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Jerzy Popiełuszko as Self - Priest (archive footage) |
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Mikhail Gorbachev as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
| Directing | Ania Szczepańska | Director |
| Sound | Adam Stanisławski | Sound |
| Production | Regina Bouchehri | Supervising Producer |
| Camera | Nicolás Villegas | Director of Photography |
| Production | Christin Schutta | Producer |
| Production | Gunnar Dedio | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Ania Szczepańska | Writer |
| Sound | Laurent Eyquem | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Anna Rok | Sound |
| Production | Melanie Clausen | Production Manager |
| Production | Melanie Braun | Production Manager |
| Editing | Jeannette-Maria Giza | Editor |
| Sound | Tobias Fritzsch | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Roman Carsten Keller | Original Music Composer |