Directed by:
Andrzej WajdaScreenplay:
Janusz GłowackiCinematography:
Pawel EdelmanComposer:
Pawel MykietynCast:
Robert Więckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Iwona Bielska, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Miroslaw Baka, Cezary Kosinski, Maciej Stuhr (more)Plots(1)
How was it possible for a single person to change the world so dramatically? It is as much a political as a psychological question. Wajda, intruding into a private, even intimate sphere of Lech Wałęsa - the Polish "Solidarity" Trade Union's leader, attempts to capture a phenomenon of this incredible metamorphosis: from a simple worker into a charismatic leader. Wałęsa's controversial persona, fostering heated discussions that last till this very day, helped millions of people to release the suppressed dreams of freedom, setting the stage for the political transformations beyond anyone's imagination at the time. And yet, Wałęsa's story does not only have this one psychological or local dimension. The life of a simple electrician, at first fighting for his fellow workers' rights, echoed only some remote events until it was Wałęsa himself and millions of his fellow countrywomen and men that made the world news for several crucial years in the 1980s leading to the fall of the Iron Curtain. (CinEast)
(more)Cast
![Robert Więckiewicz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/832/160832252_94aa70.png)
Robert Więckiewicz
Poland
Best movies:
Clergy (2018)
Wszystko będzie dobrze (2007)
Leave No Traces (2021)
![Agnieszka Grochowska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/741/158741313_ac3eb2.jpg)
Agnieszka Grochowska
Poland
Best movies:
Leave No Traces (2021)
The Welts (2004)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
![Zbigniew Zamachowski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/328/328295_4e0734.jpg)
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Korczak (1990)
![Iwona Bielska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/356/167356187_078acb.png)
Iwona Bielska
Poland
Best movies:
Clergy (2018)
The Wedding (2004)
The Mighty Angel (2014)
![Maria Rosaria Omaggio](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/188/158188315_682b66.jpg)
Maria Rosaria Omaggio
Italy
Best movies:
The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
Tough Ones (1976)
![Miroslaw Baka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/575/164575638_e4e96e.jpg)
Miroslaw Baka
Poland
Best movies:
The Peasants (2023)
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Run Boy Run (2013)
![Cezary Kosinski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/827/164827632_0c606b.png)
Cezary Kosinski
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
The Debt (1999)
Gods (2014)
![Maciej Stuhr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/315/168315705_x5xu9h.png)
Maciej Stuhr
Poland
Best movies:
Return to Legoland (2021)
The Hater (2020)
Letters to Santa (2011)
![Agata Buzek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/423/160423367_01b115.jpg)
Agata Buzek
Poland
Best movies:
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
Agnus dei (2016)
Jeziorak (2014)
![Joanna Kulig](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/145/164145904_3d2968.png)
Joanna Kulig
Poland
Best movies:
Clergy (2018)
Cold War (2018)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
![Andrzej Grabowski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/804/158804803_b2a8a7.jpg)
Andrzej Grabowski
Poland
Best movies:
With Fire and Sword (1999)
Day of the Wacko (2002)
Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy (2002)
![Przemyslaw Bluszcz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/941/165941321_5cf907.png)
Przemyslaw Bluszcz
Poland
Best movies:
Oda do radości (2005)
Jestem (2005)
Świadek koronny (2007)
![Cezary Lukaszewicz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/176/166176914_770db0.png)
Cezary Lukaszewicz
Poland
Best movies:
The Peasants (2023)
Sonata (2021)
Loving Vincent (2017)
![Józef Pawlowski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/987/158987549_2a3886.jpg)
Józef Pawlowski
Poland
Best movies:
How I Became a Gangster. True Story (2019)
Jack Strong (2014)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
![Marcin Perchuć](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/439/164439326_1c5e30.png)
Marcin Perchuć
Poland
Best movies:
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
Drowsiness (2008)
Letters to Santa 2 (2015)
![Wojciech Solarz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/171/159171535_c122b7.jpg)
Wojciech Solarz
Poland
Best movies:
Oda do radości (2005)
Gods (2014)
Popiełuszko. Wolność jest w nas (2009)
![Marcin Hycnar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/280/159280373_4e1825.jpg)
Marcin Hycnar
Poland
Best movies:
Supernova (2019)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
The Marshal (2019)
![Piotr Witkowski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/335/165335635_633bb2.png)
Piotr Witkowski
Poland
Best movies:
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
The Champion (2020)
Other People (2021)
Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Man of Marble (1977)
Man of Iron (1981)
![Lech Walesa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/901/157901408_9608a0.jpg)
Lech Walesa (a.f.)
Poland
Best movies:
Man of Iron (1981)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013) - a.f.
Moonwalker (1988)