This feature, the brainchild of Andrzej Wajda, is a joint venture of 13 great Polish directors to memorialize the events of August 1980, when Polish workers went on strike across the country and began a hard-fought campaign for workers’ rights. Each of directors shot a 10-minute-long film. The plots and their genre were up to the filmmakers. The resulting 2-hour-long film feature a wide variety of forms: from a video-clip through comedy and documentary to a rarefied interview with Lech Wałęsa that echoes the famous films by Andrzej Wajda: Man of Marble and Man of Iron.
The result is truly fascinating, irrespective of what you know, or can remember, about Solidarity.