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Man of Iron

Człowiek z żelaza

1981147 minPLIMDb 7.3/10 · 4.3K votes

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.

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14.12.1970 → 31.08.1980

Primary placement confidence: high. Importance on the World History timeline: 5/5.

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History of PolandKingdom, Commonwealth, partitions and modern statehood→
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Solidarity movement in PolandSetting · Historical Era

Independent labor and civic movement in communist Poland that contributed to the political transformation of 1989.

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Lech WałęsaMinor Character · Historical
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GdańskPrimary Setting · City
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WarsawSetting · City

Political center of the Commonwealth during the succession and mobilization period preceding the Ottoman invasion.

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