Strike
by Volker Schlöndorff
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Actor: Katharina Thalbach; Dominique Horwitz; Wojciech Solarz; Andrzej Grabowski; Ewa Telega; Andrzej ChyraDirector: Volker Schlöndorff
Brand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); 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
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- The heroine of the shipyards - tells the story of a simple worker, who was the cause of the strike on the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, which led to the creation of the first free unions and ultimately the downfall of the soviet system. She was an orphan, analphabet, communist activist and fervent catholic, a bundle of a woman who fought with wit and cunning for justice at her workplace, not kno
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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.
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