Man of Iron
Released: July 27, 1981Runtime: 147 minLanguage: PL
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. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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Jerzy Radziwilowicz
as Mateusz Birkut
Krystyna Janda
as Agnieszka
Marian Opania
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Wieslawa Kosmalska
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Irena Byrska
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Boguslaw Linda
as Dzidek
Lech Walesa
as Lech Walesa
Anna Walentynowicz
as Anna Walentynowicz
Jerzy Borowczak
as Stanislaw J. Borowczak
Zbigniew Lis
as Zbigniew Lis
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