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.
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)