Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe backdrop

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe 2019 Directed by Ania Szczepańska Solidarnosc – Der Mauerfall begann in Polen

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.

Country Germany
Production Country Germany
Language German
Spoken Languages English , French , German , Polish
Production Companies ARTE , NDR , LOOKSfilm
Release Date 1 October 2019
52 mins
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)
Pope 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)