02 Nov 1995
Short Working Day
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Strike
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
Top Billed Cast
Katharina Thalbach Agnieszka Kowalska
Andrzej Chyra elektryk Leszek
Dominique Horwitz Kazimierz
Wojciech Solarz 
Ewa Telega 
Barbara Jonak 
Maria Maj 
Krzysztof Kiersznowski 
Andrzej Grabowski 
Wojciech Pszoniak 
Jowita Budnik 
Joanna Bogacka 
Henryk Gołębiewski Marta Jankowska 
Wojciech Kalarus 
Dorota Kolak 
Magdalena Smalara 
Dariusz Kowalski brygadzista Bochnak
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