"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)
Pope 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
Christin Schutta
Producer
Gunnar Dedio
Executive Producer
Writer
Nicolás Villegas
Director of Photography
Melanie Clausen
Production Manager
Adam Stanisławski
Sound
Melanie Braun
Roman Carsten Keller
Original Music Composer
Jeannette-Maria Giza
Editor
Anna Rok
Laurent Eyquem
Regina Bouchehri
Supervising Producer
Tobias Fritzsch
Sound Mixer