Strike
22
Drama
Volker Schlöndorff has found renewed inspiration in the true stories of overlooked heroes. His last film, The Ninth Day, was a revelation, chronicling the struggle of a Catholic priest who expired in the hellhole of Auschwitz. STRIKE tells the story of the beginnings of Poland’s Solidarity movement through the little-known figure of Anna Walentynowicz, here renamed Agnieszka Kowalska and played by Katharina Thalbach. The actions of this ... [+]