1970, Gdansk. The communist authorities bloodily repress a workers’ protest. Among them Lech Walesa, an ordinary shipyard worker who tries to deal with daily problems with his wife Danuta. Refusing the rules, he soon start leading a revolution that will end up not only toppling a dictatorship in Poland, but also eating away at the crumbling edifice of the Soviet empire.

Direction: Andrzej Wajda

Script: Janusz Głowacki

Production: Michał Kwieciński

Cinematography: Paweł Edelman

Editing: Grażyna Gradoń

Production Design: Magdalena Dipont

Costume Design: Magdalena Biedrzycka

Sound: Jacek Hamela

Original Score: Paweł Mykietyn

Cast: Robert Więckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Zbigniew Zamachowski

Original Title: WALESA

Original Language: Polish

Subtitles: English

Film Production Country: Poland

Biography of the Director/s
Film and theatrical director; born March 6th 1926 in Suwałki, Poland; Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow; Film School Łódź; Film Director 1954; Theater Dir. Teatr Stary, Cracow 1962-1998; Man. Dir. Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 1989-90; Hon. mem. Union Polish Artist and Designers (ZPAP) 1977; President Polish Film Assoc. 1978-83; ”Solidarity” Lech Wałęsa Council 1981-89; Senator of the Republic of Poland 1989-91; Presidential Council for Culture 1992-94; Founder: Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow 1994;

Films:
- Pokolenie (Generation) 1954;
- Idę do Słońca (I`m Going to the Sun) 1955;
- Kanał (Canal) 1957;
- Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamond) 1957;
- Lotna 1959;
- Niewinni czarodzieje (Innocent Sorcerers) 1960;
- Samson 1961;
- Sibirska Ledi Makbet (Siberian Lady Macbeth) 1962;
- L`amour a Vingt Ans (Love at Twenty) 1962;
- Popioły (Ashes) 1965;
- Gates to Paradise 1968;
- Wszystko na sprzedaż (Everything for Sale) 1969;
- Polowanie na muchy (Hunting Flies) 1969;
- Krajobraz po bitwie (Landscape After the Battle) 1970;
- Brzezina (The Birch Wood) 1970;
- Wesele (The Wedding) 1973;
- Ziemia obiecana (The Promised Land) 1975;
- Człowiek z marmuru (Man of Marble);
- Bez znieczulenia (Without Anesthesia);
- Panny z Wilka (The Maids of Wilko) 1979;
- Dyrygent (The Conductor) 1980;
- Człowiek z żelaza (Man of Iron) 1981;
- Danton 1982;
- Eine Liebe in Deutchland (A Love in Germany) 1983;
- Kronika wypadków miłosnych (Chronicle of Love Affairs) 1986;
- Les Possedes (The Possessed) 1987;
- Korczak 1990;
- Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (The Crowned-Eagle Ring ) 1992;
- Nastasya 1994;
- Wielki Tydzień (The Holy Week) 1995;
- Panna Nikt (Miss Nobody) 1996;
- Pan Tadeusz (Mr Tadeusz) 1999;
- Zemsta (The Revenge) 2002;
- Katyń (Katyn) (2007);
- Tatarak (Sweet Rush) (2009)

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