The shipyard workers who accidentally toppled an empire — vodka not included.
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.
Direction
Szczepańska weaves intimate testimonies into epic historical sweep.
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a gut punch — no nostalgia, just nerve.
Director
Ania Szczepańska
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Agnieszka Holland appears before her Hollywood era — she smuggled footage out in film cans disguised as sausage packages.
The Solidarność logo — two joined hands spelling 'S' — was designed in a cramped Gdańsk apartment and became the most reproduced symbol of resistance in Eastern Bloc history.
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