Strike
by Volker Schl??ndorff
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Actor: Katharina Thalbach; Dominique Horwitz; Wojciech Solarz; Andrzej Grabowski; Ewa Telega; Andrzej ChyraDirector: Volker Schl??ndorff
Brand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Polish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MPI Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Strike
Movie Review: Solidarity . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Twenty years (1960-1980) are covered in this moving and enjoyable fictional treatment of Polish history as played out in the shipyards of Gdansk, which gave birth to the Solidarity Movement that helped bring an end to Communist rule behind the Iron Curtain. German director Volker Schlorndorff focuses on the life of a dedicated shipyard welder, an unmarried mother, whose devotion to the ideals of socialism is transformed by the mismanagement of the shipyard directors and the lack of support by the union meant to serve workers' interests. As unrest fuels the overworked and underpaid laborers, she becomes a champion of their rights and wins the enmity of the Party while becoming a heroine to coworkers.
Meanwhile, we get glimpses of a personal life marked by her brief marriage to a jazz musician and haunted by a long ago liaison with a labor boss, who is the father of her son. It is a richly and warmly told story of an individual life that refuses to be undaunted by forces beyond her control and holds out for sweeping political reform. In the end, the irony is that communism's goal of uniting workers is finally used against the Party machinery meant to achieve that very objective. The film has wonderful performances, a perfectly plausible script, and a soundtrack that includes lyrical jazz interludes. Very satisfying.
Summary of Strike
In poverty, she found strength.
In oppression, she found courage.
In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again.
Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIE'S CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during the rise of Poland's Solidarity movement.
An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder. until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster.
Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history. and becomes a national hero.
Volker Schl?ndorff adapted this "ballad based on historical events" from the biography of Anna Walentynowicz, the free trade activist who mobilized a million Poles for Solidarity and helped hasten the fall of Communism.
Filmed entirely on location at Poland's Lenin Shipyard, where history was made.
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