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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.
Keywords
berlin wall
iron curtain
trade union
anti-communism
human rights
labor union
shipyard
communist propaganda
workers union
fight for justice
1980s
political repression
warsaw, poland
state crimes
dictatorship aftermath
european history
fall of communism
freedom of expression
political documentary
fighting the system
historical documentary
Casts
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)
Crews
Ania Szczepańska
Director
Christin Schutta
Producer
Gunnar Dedio
Executive Producer
Ania Szczepańska
Writer
Nicolás Villegas
Director of Photography
Melanie Clausen
Production Manager
Adam Stanisławski
Sound
Melanie Braun
Production Manager
Roman Carsten Keller
Original Music Composer
Jeannette-Maria Giza
Editor
Anna Rok
Sound
Laurent Eyquem
Original Music Composer
Regina Bouchehri
Supervising Producer
Tobias Fritzsch
Sound Mixer
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