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.

Producers	ARTE, NDR, LOOKS
Original title	Solidarnosc - Der Mauerfall begann in Polen
Directors	Ania Szczepańska
Writers	Ania Szczepańska

Cast

Corinna Waldbauer

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Stanisław Ciosek

as Self - Politician

Barbara Labuda

as Self - Politician

Agnieszka Holland

as Self - Filmmaker

Jacek Petrycki

as Self - Cameraman

Michał Bukojemski

as Self - Cameraman

Basil Kerski

as Self - Journalist

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Pope John Paul II

as Self (archive footage)

Anna Walentynowicz

as Self - Political Activist (archive footage)

Mieczysław Jagielski

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Lech Wałęsa

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bronisław Geremek

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Zbigniew Lewicki

as Self - Politologist (archive footage)

Jerzy Popiełuszko

as Self - Priest (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self - Politician (archive footage)