During his long tenure at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, Walesa advocated workers’ rights and participated in strikes and other activities that led to the Solidarity movement and, eventually, ...

New version of veteran Polish director's film specially created for fest's 49th edition. By Nick Holdsworth A Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakens a hidden desire for ...

Directed by Andrzej Wajda (Katyn), this watchable biopic recounts approximately a decade in the life of Lech Walesa, the Gdansk shipyard worker who led the Solidarity movement against the Communist ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Veteran director Andrzej Wajda has earned an honorary Oscar for his catalogue of powerful movies, but he felt he had one more mission to complete before his long career ends: to ...

Poland’s eminence gris of filmmaking, Andrzej Wajda, is planning to make a film about 1980s pro-democracy Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, with a script by Agnieszka Holland. Wajda, whose new film ...

Oscar winner Andrzej Wajda said Thursday that his new film on former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa will be his greatest challenge in 55 years as a director. "This will be the ...

History’s most consequential heroes aren’t always the most powerful. Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II played important parts in toppling communism. But it was a Polish ...

Andrzej Wajda's film on the man who helped topple Communism is less controversial than expected. By Nick Holdsworth Director: Andrzej Wajda The life of a simple electrician, at first fighting for his ...

Nobel Prize winner and former Polish President Lech Walesa will attend the Karlovy Vary Film Festival to introduce the world premiere of the director’s cut of Andrzej Wajda‘s “Walesa: Man of Hope,” ...

How was it possible for one 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 the trade ...