
10 Oct 2021

Lunch Break
1979. Four female workers have lunch break inside the ladies' room, at a metallurgical factory. Between laughs and scuffles, each one has a secret of their own.

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.

Maciek Tomczyk / Mateusz Birkut

Agnieszka

Winkel

matka Hulewicz

Wiesława Hulewicz

Dzidek

Badecki

zastępca szefa Radiokomitetu

kapitan Wirski

Grzenda

Antoniak, działacz opozycji

Kryska, przyjaciel Maćka w 1970

Hanka Tomczyk, żona Birkuta

redaktor tv

personalny

SB-ek na cmentarzu na pogrzebie Birkuta

student

kierowca prezesa Radiokomitetu

pracownik telewizji

kadrowa

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