When Lech Walesa, half peasant, half worker, led the strike in the Gdansk shipyards in Poland in 1980, ten million people joined him. This breach finally led to the first peaceful overthrow of a communist regime in 1989.
The revolution had triumphed: in January 1979, the Shah had to leave Iran. Then the ayatollah took power. In Polish August 1980, the Solidarno union formed and changed the country with their strikes. The ascent followed the decline. Andreas Hoessli was a research fellow in Poland at that time. He met the reporter legend Ryszard Kapuciński. Because of his contacts he was also...
文卡尔是华沙电视台的编导，由于格丹斯克造船厂正在爆发激烈的罢工事件，因此电视台派他前去采访。当文卡尔乘车来到事发地，却发现已有司机接站，并且后续的接待都很周到。但是，当他见到傲慢的**官员巴迪后，才发现自己成了资方与当局勾结的牺牲品。后者企图通过媒体混淆视听。而文卡尔的任务是冒充劳方的同情者，混入罢工委员会。
违心做了卧底的文卡尔，深入接触了罢工运动领导者托姆楚克，并在调查中发现了其父劳动模范比尔库克的死亡悬案。此外，文卡尔还遇到了并肩作战的情侣，丧父而坚持信仰的旗手，甚至还有临时起意的叛徒，在复杂的心理搏杀中，他的良知与专业精神，使他逐渐对劳方产生了怜悯与同情，然而事情远比预想复杂得多……
本片获第34届戛纳电影节最佳影片金棕榈奖。
