Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
1981, 147’
The continuation of Wajda's picture of 1976 – "Man of Marble" ("Człowiek z marmuru"). The year 1980. Workers of the Gdansk Shipyard are on strike. The son of Mateusz Birkut, Maciek Tomczyk, is one of the shipyard workers and also an activist of the strike committee. Winkel, a radio reporter, is given an assignment to make a report which would disgrace Tomczyk and the strike committee… The film earned international awards at Cannes International Film Festival – the Palme d\’Or (1981); Cannes International Film Festival– Ecumenical Jury Award (1981), was nominated for The Oscar The Oscar® Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category (1982).