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 | Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz | |
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| Volker Schloendorff | |
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| Andreas Huetter | |
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| Juergen Haase | |
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| Completed | |
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| 2006 | |
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| Can a single person change the course of history? Hardly. Such legends are born at a later time. but a single peson can be the catalyst or a powerful development. Agnieszka is a small woman. she was an orphan, is the mother of an illegitimate child, Catholic, a Socialist Workers hero, a welder and a crane operator in the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk. Life hasn't been easy on her. Her husband died shortly after their marriage, her son distances himself from her. She works hard and diligently, and expects the same sense of dliligence from others, but particularly from party members. Quick-witted and with humor, she is able to forge her way past the fat cats and masters, but eventually they get her and she is fired on a false pretense. Showing their solidadrity, her coleagues strike in oder to force her reinstatement. suddenly the whole shipyard is striking, and then all Polish factories. Solidarnosc is born.
The action of a single worker set the strikes in the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk in motion, which brought about hte independent labor union Solidarnosc, which led to Perestroika and, finally, to the fall fo the Berlin Wall. | |
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| Toronto Film Festival 2006 | |
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