Strike
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Katharina Thalbach; Dominique Horwitz; Wojciech Solarz; Andrzej Grabowski; Ewa Telega; Andrzej Chyra Director: 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 Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Strike
Movie Review: Agnieszka Kowalska heroine of Poland
Summary: 5 Stars
Katharina Thalbach gives a brilliant performance as shipyard welder and crane operator Agnieszka Kowalska, who is unjustly fired by the shipyard managers of Gdansk shipyard for protesting the denial of widows pensions for workers killed in a fire at the shipyard, a fire caused by management incompetence.
Her stubborn insistence on justice and refusal to be payed off or intimidated by the shipyard management or Polish Government caused the strike on the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980 which spread to other Polish shipyards and public services across Poland all of which led to the creation of the first free unions and ultimately free elections in Poland 10 years later. Consequently, the consequences of her actions were a part of several domestic and military setbacks for the Soviet Union which ultimately led to its collapse.
Thalback put in a superb performance as Kowalska who shows that one person at the right time and place can lead to dramatic change for the good.