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Title Strike / Dokūment Films ; Red Envelope Entertainment presents in association with Laemmle/Zeller Films, a Provobis Film, Jürgen Haase Production in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk ; ARTE ; Paisa Films ; Mediopolis Film- and Fernsehproduktion GmbH ; producer, Jürgen Haase ; screenplay, Andreas Pflüger, Sylke Rene Meyer and Maciej Karpiński ; director, Volker Schöndorff.

Publication Info. [Oak Forest, Ill.] : MPI Home Video [distributor], [2007]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD FOREIGN STRIKE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult FOREIGN DVD  DVD FOREIGN-POL-S    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  POL DVD STRIKE c.2  Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Note Title from container.
Cast Katharina Thalbach, Andrzej Chyra, Dominque Horwitz, Andrzej Grabowski, Dariusz Kowalski, Ewa Telega, Wojciech Pszoniak.
Credits Director of photography, Andreas Höfer ; editors, Peter Przygooda, Wanda Zeman ; music, Jean Michel Jarre ; costume designer, Ewa Krauze ; production designer, Robert Czesak.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.
Event Filmed entirely on location at Poland's Lenin Shipyard.
Summary "An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder... until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history... and becomes a national hero." -Container.
Language Polish dialogue with English or Polish subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization) -- Drama.
Strikes and lockouts -- Shipbuilding industry -- Poland -- Gdańsk -- Drama.
Shipbuilding industry -- Employees -- Drama.
Labor disputes -- Poland -- Gdańsk -- Drama.
Polish-language films.
Gdańsk (Poland) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Foreign films -- Poland.
Historical films.
Historical -- Feature.
Women -- Feature.
Feature films.
Historical films.
Added Author Haase, Jürgen, 1945-
Pflüger, Andreas.
Meyter, Sylke Rene.
Karpiński, Maciej, 1950-
Schlöndorff, Volker.
Thalbach, Katharina, 1954-
Chyra, Andrzej, 1964-
Horwitz, Dominique.
Grabowski, Andrzej, 1952-
Kowalski, Dariusz.
Telega, Ewa.
Pszoniak, Wojciech, 1942-2020
Red Envelope Entertainment (Firm)
Laemmle/Zeller Films.
Provobis (Firm)
Association relative à la télévision européenne
Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Paisa Films (Films)
Mediopolis (Firm)
MPI Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Strajk, die Heldin von Danzig
ISBN 0788608878
9780788608872
Standard No. 030306900193
Music No. DVD9001 MPI Home Video
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