Lech Wałęsa

Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen (2023)

The film traces the conflict between General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the electrician Lech Wałęsa. Close companions and contemporary witnesses have their say in the documentary, providing an insight into this important chapter of contemporary European his ...

Be Somebody (2023)

Together with his family, Wiktor moves into a recently bought flat, which turns out to have belonged to Lech Wałęsa, a symbol of freedom and a legend as a simple electrician who became Poland's president many years ago. ...

In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas t ...

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga (2022)

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time. ...

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets ...

1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The ...

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

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. ...

Tylko nie mów nikomu (2019)

Documentary film about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland. ...

Meeting Gorbachev (2019)

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country. ...

Wałęsa by Wałęsa (2017)

Lech Wałęsa. One of the most important and at the same time most colourful figures in Polish history. In communist Poland he was a simple electrician, then he led the downfall of communism in Poland, and consequently in other countries of Eastern Europe. ...

The Last Days of the USSR (2011)

From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with intervie ...

Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was... (2011)

Nie kłam kochanie (2008)

Ania, a sensitive, shy green-architecture student, tends the gardens of an elegant building and finds herself falling for its handsome tenant, Marcin. Ambitious and adept at lying to charm women, Marcin faces a sudden financial crisis he can only escape if ...

Gra o Nobla (2008)

Exactly 25 years ago, on December 10, 1983, Danuta Wałęsa received the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her husband in Oslo. The tragic figure of Magdalena Wójcik is inscribed in the history of Wałęsa's Nobel Prize. ...

Hammer & Tickle (2007)

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union. ...

Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2006)

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatican" before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century. Born in Poland and for ...

Solidarność, Solidarność... (2005)

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview. ...

Bajland (2000)

A black political comedy, which, as a backdrop, uses the election race and the accompanying chaos in the media. The film's protagonist is a presidential candidate in the 2000 elections in Poland who suddenly withdraws from the election campaign despite his ...

Człowiek ze studni (1991)

The documentary presents the presidential election campaign in Poland in 1990. ...

Workers '80 (1982)

Documentary about the beginning of Solidarnosc. ...

Man of Iron (1981)

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Po ...

The Birth of Solidarity (1981)

A film showing the social mood and tensions in the period between the end of the strikes in August 1980 and the registration of the Solidarity Trade Union in November 1980. ...