Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

2019 | 52 minutes | 7.0 ★ (3)

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    01 October 2019

  • DirectingAnia Szczepańska
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