Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
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.
- Year: 2019
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: LOOKS, NDR, ARTE
- Keyword: 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
- Director: Ania Szczepańska
- Cast: Corinna Waldbauer, Stanisław Ciosek, Barbara Labuda, Agnieszka Holland, Jacek Petrycki, Michał Bukojemski