"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
Agnieszka Holland
as Self - Filmmaker
Jacek Petrycki
as Self - Cameraman
Michał Bukojemski
Basil Kerski
as Self - Journalist
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
John Paul II.
as Self (archive footage)
Anna Walentynowicz
as Self - Political Activist (archive footage)
Mieczysław Jagielski
Lech Wałęsa
Bronisław Geremek
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Zbigniew Lewicki
as Self - Politologist (archive footage)
Jerzy Popiełuszko
as Self - Priest (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ania Szczepańska
Director
Adam Stanisławski
Sound
Regina Bouchehri
Supervising Producer
Nicolás Villegas
Director of Photography
Christin Schutta
Producer
Gunnar Dedio
Executive Producer
Writer
Laurent Eyquem
Original Music Composer
Anna Rok
Melanie Clausen
Production Manager
Melanie Braun
Jeannette-Maria Giza
Editor
Tobias Fritzsch
Sound Mixer
Roman Carsten Keller