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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
Directed by Ania Szczepańska
Documentary, History, TV Movie · 52m
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
C
Corinna Waldbauer
Self - Narrator (voice)
S
Stanisław Ciosek
Self - Politician
B
Barbara Labuda
Self - Politician
Agnieszka Holland
Self - Filmmaker
J
Jacek Petrycki
Self - Cameraman
M
Michał Bukojemski
Self - Cameraman
B
Basil Kerski
Self - Journalist
T
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Pope John Paul II
Self (archive footage)
A
Anna Walentynowicz
Self - Political Activist (archive footage)
M
Mieczysław Jagielski
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Lech Wałęsa
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Ania Szczepańska
- Writer
- Ania Szczepańska
- Director of Photography
- Nicolás Villegas
- Original Music Composer
- Laurent Eyquem, Roman Carsten Keller
- Editor
- Jeannette-Maria Giza
- Producer
- Christin Schutta
Details
- Original title
- Solidarnosc – Der Mauerfall begann in Polen
- Release date
- 2019-10-01
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German, Polish
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- LOOKSfilm, NDR, ARTE