Strike (2006)

Original title

Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig

Directed by

Volker Schlöndorff

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Germany, Poland

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman works at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk from the 1960s to the 1980s. She becomes involved in labor organizing and the formation of the Solidarity movement.

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What happens

Strike is a 2006 Polish-German historical drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The film covers the formation of Solidarity and centers around work and labor organizing in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Polish People's Republic. The film follows the life of Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach) in about three segments covering first her life as a dedicated worker in communist Poland of the early 1960s (DVD chapters 1-4), then following events leading to the Polish 1970 protests (chapters 5-10), and finally the early 1980s, including the dedication of the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970, the Gdańsk Agreement, and Martial law in Poland (chapters 11-15). The character of Agnieszka is a composite based loosely based on the lives of two women labour activists, the crane operator Anna Walentynowicz and the diminutive shipyard nurse Alina Pienkowska. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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