
115 minutes
5/23/1984
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

Richard Crenna
as The Narrator

Bernard Hill
as Lech Walesa

Alec McCowen
as Rakowski

Roy Kinnear
as Kania

John Woodvine
as Gierek

Don Henderson
as Kuron

Frank Middlemass
as Brezhnev

John Bluthal
as Babiuch
Richard Kane
as Jaruzelski

Tom Wilkinson
as Rulewski

Gary Waldhorn
as Jagielski
Jonathan Adams
as Gwiazda

George Irving
as Aristov (as George Waring)

Martin Wyldeck
as Olszowski
Peter Bayliss
as Barcikowski

Frank Ellis
as Miner

Colin Jeavons
as Glemp
Michael N. Harbour
as Lis
John Antrobus
as 1st. Witness

Mark Dignam
as 2nd Witness

Leon Lissek
as 3rd Witness
Anthony May
as 4th Witness

James Warrior
as 5th Witness
Gordon Gostelow
as Mazowiecki
Neil McCaul
as Steel Worker
Bill McCabe
as Finanski
Matthew Long
as Szozopanski
Nicholas McArdle
as Party Speaker
Henry Moxon
as Cardinal Wyozyski

Ralph Nossek
as Official
Robert Percival
as Jablonski

John Rogan
as Jurczyk
Philip Raymond
as Geremek
Robin Summers
as Bujak
Bob Sessions
as Reporter
Trevor T. Smith
as Secretary

Jon Glover
as Picket

Frank Jakeman
as Pressman/Photographer
Stuart Cox
as General Jaruzelski's Secretary
Ronald Forfar
as Prisoner