This is the story of an electrician who worked in the shipyards of good done skin poland he organized strikes he created the First Independent trade union in a communist country at the age of forty he received a Nobel Peace Prize at forty seven he was elected president of the republic of poland his name. And so. I. Looked up and a very fair for how should a documentary about president balance a good. You know i have no idea but if thats not the subject as if you want to cover my entire life you need to split it into two parts. Start with the early days when life was simple religious senate around the church there you gave their bespoke or short. In december one thousand nine hundred seventy that fell and so was working as an electrician and if youd done shipyard a few days before christmas the government announced a new so called price regulation but the prices of meat and other food staples reduced drastically leading to mass protests by workers. Working for themselves in december nine hundred seventy i was one of the strike leaders. Defective people ask themselves if they should once again give up and lose all hope. You should do good with you know saurians on the second day i understood that there was no chance of winning as it chanced for if they wanted blood to flow youve been offered your leave because its us and so on the second day i decided to stop the fight in order to prepare a wiser course of action racial it might have appeared to shine even to the authorities there i had changed sides. So you know where you know me sure you said i just knew they wanted to bleed us dr and i would accomplish nothing he does it. Its just that as. I went on. I remember the day they came for my husband and took him away because i was left alone with the baby game. I put voting at two days later a man came over to my house and said the authorities had had a change in leadership and that they let my husband go. Following the protests on the coast the first secretary of the communist party claudius why. I was ousted and replaced by edward rick. No one thought we were where we were losing faith after years of struggle and then came a gift from heaven was about was what the lens so called a gift from heaven was an election of the polish Pope John Paul the second. Thank you for that poppy the polish pope united us and lifted us up with his words your own into. Near saw him do. Your know your very very. Very. Best but you should not be out the pub in the events of nine hundred seventy without those experience years and i wouldnt have been able to leave the pfizer ten years later. Its the early one nine hundred eighty s. The parish economy collapses prices are constantly increasing. The workers in the shipyard of good done to go on strike once again and again they look to the left to lead them. So why are you laying to the structure. Of you you should stay put and we had agreed to meet up shortly before six i was a couple of hours late but of course. It doesnt but should be there for your check the secret Service Files here youll see that i was under surveillance because your fire has been on time they would have been waiting for me to stop a group of people over six hundred meters at each more your speed thanks to my being later i was able to enter the shipyard storage. East. And set it but i was going about. The workers present twenty one demands including independent unions and the right to strike poland was intended to be a workers paradise yet even in this workers paradise they no longer want to work on saturdays strikes and protests spread across the whole country this time the scale of the protest is so huge the authorities dan not use force to crush the movement they decide to negotiate. The deputy Prime Minister agrees. To meet with the strike leaders for more than thirty years workers demands have gone on onset so they ask to be heard by an all star richie who can advance their cause leading the workers delegation is less fun and trick for should anyone else have led the movement i dont think so no one had the experience you know id taken part in strikes before i was out there nine hundred seventy. Four not in your budget you told. Your skills i would offer. More you. Know yes. Yes. I thank you and now that it said he was charismatic and he was an outstanding speaker of the budget some of you at. National question actually baskets and i. Have a better but what. Might be a blue collar but you either have the magnetism or you dont. Have it but attention is going to pick up if youll say its actually been a significant. Thank. You back in we were together in our marriage like a hand in a glove. Yeah. And suddenly i felt that it changed things fell apart i got literally split all over i was the last of the children my husband went away to fix the world well its that she kept. Issue of them still i gave myself one hundred percent to this fight at the expense of my family my wife and that hurts her to this day years but i was brought up so that if you commit to something youve got to see it through each. Child yesterday i was putting away from the premiere of such a shit about irish were shipped back. Dated going towards yeah. I plucked out shark i was docked off for a couple of you know which i feel sort of cheesy greets me all the strikers dumonds eighteen days later the strike ends in victory something never before seen in a communist country the in tom wells nuns at the shrine and so on solidarity. With he. Was be. With. Me very few years and years and its amazing this you can skew a with three. Biggest county thieves. In the game to panted. I dont have a solution i mean obviously im a little fish the rebel got the material girl. I got it and it was either tonight or i. Was the independent and Autonomous Trade Union solidarity was. It represented what the communists had feared the most independence in short order ten million men and women all polish workers joined solidarity. Visit just for me more for the victory was greater than anything i expected it made me consider my next steps to the fight couldnt stop until communism fell squirms of the communist. Solidarity now speaks without asking anyone for permission but the economy is still in a tailspin some problem some russian. Soldiers while the kids are crying or take them in my arms the phone rings and so on i need to do everything at the same time. Its sunday what are your plans for tomorrow look at this is a little more of a Plenary Session attended am a briefing to decide what were going to discuss at four pm. Which. Shows not only things that i couldnt stand being in that situation that judy having to share him with the world he our relationship was becoming worse and worse but my husband liked playing his role that if our marriage falls apart whos to blame if you made a vow to me there are things you cant do but if you do them ill be relieved of my vows to. And what then. If. I love her and shes trying to give me a kiss give daddy a kiss. You. Get its the first time your brains around more abroad in general when asked by the pope whats the purpose of your visit babysit. Its like a son visiting his father to get some fatherly advice for his son miller a chance to complain to him a bit. So why complain. Because it was hard and still less but itll get better just a father son conversation so. Much i entered the room they saw the holy father and the deal before him and thats all i can remember in. The book where if your service but it was my first direct contact with you for the. Archbishop but the holy father knew everything already. Sugar meets busha vodka toilet paper always more rationing but even with the rationing system in poland theres not a lot to bond i just get where did you meet your husband. In one nine hundred sixty eight we got married in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine yes everythings on your shoulders and if anyone is going to just go shopping yes i have to make decisions alone which i hate we see him on t. V. When he goes somewhere but thats it its as if he isnt fully ours thats how i feel. But i always needed most when my children were growing up i was away i cant go back in time for something i can never have again. Theyre growing up wasnt always easy but nothing is free in this world youve got to pay the price fiji islands of the supply chain. Yes. See them do something steady go. Modern young you want to see the she and the also young little lifts being shown to divide well see this list. Steady so safety shown for the five most thank you this. Is. Fighting me it almost sounds. Almost and we should be trying to put a stop to it first of all im not difficult when you started writing what you know. Do people insist that just please good idea. Do you believe anythings changed since solidarity took off this is a delicious of course a lot has changed t. V. Is already different now when communist poland was being rebuilt they focused on building the country on successes and now its gone now its a different extreme to show how bad it is an hour of things falling apart whos to blame and from one extreme to the other we need to get to the middle ground not just. Before god. Or you. Know but. The. Its wrong too but if you get. Put out some some dumbass right back like you. Or your truth or not is not as much about the fact. That you josh asian. Plastic robot washer was called out that i dont know that i dont like. Buying stuff go just post i mean im going to stick with you but i do like fish nazi steinway young nick now. So they have a proud. Institution martial law also tells the soviets there is no reason to interfere in poland and the country is now under control solidarity has been made illegal its thousands of supporters hunted down and left for then some progress did. You. See it in the. Is there the knowledge that your life isnt normal now life so short and dreams seldom come true. Now the common dream of all those loyal to solidarity is for the release of violence us just pushing us. I. Seek to discredit as a prisoner in a golden cage state television gives the impression he is living under privileged conditions. But if mr bill im so how are you feeling. Like im not im not complaining im doing pretty well but for a year ive been completely isolated from the outside world completely dont you have a t. V. To look at that it was of my do that with one so we had ten too polished a t. V. Channels so although i know whats going on my understanding of the situation is not complete for love to see whats actually intuition if its. Like you just heard it i just cant offer it at a press Conference Today mr obama said that less will be released in a couple of days do you know anything about it or. Thats me and no i dont think i was just informed about that by the reporters that i find it hard to believe though ill believe it once i see him at home in the next year. I feel comfortable because i thought. It was our violence so i made a joke when i was leaving and told them that the good ones would work for me some day when im president of poland its not yours it was a show i hadnt planned it all i never thought that would happen but as we edged closer to victory it became clear it must happen jim of is a chance for promotion the muslim. Truffle thought. She could give it a. Good thing i was the was one of your number one cause was i was it was i think right there was. One of the times if i was going to come off. As it does anything i said theres no doubt were when were all polish both the military and us we mustnt fight it beats but we must find a way forward without fighting or imprisonment im searching for it i will come i detest violence she was. Well of the do you think youre under house arrest is that how it feels. You know the us you know i dont think year to watch me. Think. Obvious the the situation isnt very clear of course im being watched and so on my neighbor can do what he wants but the whole world will know what i do. She went on him do you think you could go wherever you want pounced. The tradition of that of course it depends on the purpose for the time being i have a commitment to you but if its necessary to go out ill consider my options maybe ill walk out of here disguised as a woman and hell speak to me on the street thats got. I want to thank you and i hope better times will come were well appreciated by those whose economies are better than ours and who know a bit more than us so i hope our people will also understand that solutions should be sought at the negotiating table and it has to cut through to one side i. Got. A few months later the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to them and so International Public opinion is now focused on the state of affairs in pomona all those who tried to discredit finance and have think this will put it that way i think were going to have to go. Oh yes for sure that its in the second issue which is with us today my wife and son decided to go to oslo to accept this wonderful prize on my behalf. If you dont think im not going to. Get it. He cannot have for you at all im scared. The mensa fee is that if he leaves poland in to accept the award the authorities might not let him bring into the country. If his challenger i know my wife was resourceful and intelligent so i was sure shed manage her part. Of her regime state television refuses to show the ceremony. The fact that a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a shipyard in a christian from condemn sc is a severe blow to the communists paul just citizens tried to chew me into foreign channels to watch the event. I had been monitored for many years actually all the way back to nine hundred seventy off on. It because. They set up a stake on my house round the clock house that would be no longer. Ok so shes out whenever something happened in poland they watched me even closer. Its of the whatever in my own car they got into my car. If theyre super short i just drive them around for crying out loud voices or threats that. They got their way i want back all of itself and the garage to the door and couldnt just let us do this thorough my wife hates it when she goes shopping and tries something on they know down everything she buys even the bra size says. That to me after an agents dont follow me they follow you but you always stay only. After insult its just its like its. Been a lot of fun. In the meantime but then so is reinstated in his old job in the shipyard however for western journalists he remains a person of interest for nearly ten years the electrician from good done sc is the most popular public figure in poland. Once again price hikes trigger a new wave of strikes and protests take to the streets and once again the police beat them back how will they escape the cycle of violence the us or a cheese wonder what rove and then so will play. Go for it octavia most of us out to. Work on subjects like oh my. Strategy was to resist because the communists wouldnt let it go by themselves. So i helped start a fire but i made sure to keep it under control. But its been doing the. Dishes that we look at it. From that i had to show that i was strong shes because the communists wanted to see if the people would listen to me or theyre negotiating with me made sense because as yes i wanted to show them that i could fight fight its a but could also concede and end the strikes if necessary that got us thinking. Its a decisive moment almost unimaginable until this point the future of the country will be discussed between adversaries here in poland the foundations of the communist regime first crumble the first crack in the foundation is made in just six months the berlin wall will fall. For her but. Oh oh oh oh sure oh no dont you love much you just heard. From the before he took her from the. Mission to almost nothing yes i met them with you know. We wanted to defeat them in a peaceful manner if we told them we wanted power or that we wanted to erase them they would never have negotiator had a dialogue with us. So we had to say yes to communism but no to corruption were used to go to the know if i had said otherwise they would have disposed of me three and i would not have been able to fight communism but. The main stipulations of the round table out of the legalize solidarity and call for new parliamentary elections in which the communists a guaranteed sixty five percent of the seats for lens. Makes every effort to ensure that the remaining thirty five percent are filled exclusively with people from solidarity. Now how they get out but youve got to get on the pulse of arizona that much drama group says moyers numb and my famous name mattered sure i was winning by shaking hands with the right people. It was the best way to do it if we get the award for a vote of i never voted. In one nine hundred eighty eight with the polish media still under state control no one has heard of solidaritys candidates to correct that they take every opportunity to be photographed at the lens the size of the communists take sixty five percent of the seats in parliament as agreed upon but solidarity wins all the remaining seats incredibly the Prime Minister is not a communist hes an opposition activist well known and respected. As of yet ski. Issues but most of them do know that we had one we were supposed to leave power in the hands of the communists he still was. In the meantime the first symbols of capitalism appear. Improvised shop spring up on the pavements. Many of these enterprising merchants will become polands future entrepreneurs. Most of his kit was great most obvious he was Prime Minister by then and i met with cantor and call him you know im not a diplomat im a union guy and i said gentlemen the berlin wall is crumbling are you ready for that. Stuff and call replied its just a producer we wish we had problems that would make the wall fall but it will not happen in our lifetime which theres a generous a good fishing is the. With. The bit. Of the bomb and the berlin wall is crumbling are you ready for that. And cool replied mr producer we wish we had problems that would make the wall fall but it will not happen in our lifetime. Theres a german secret the ship is that with. The but. They had to cut their official visit short and go back to germany. The navy as. They did in the polls had knocked the teeth out of the soviet back then others reached out for their freedom germans czechs everyone but they could only do it after the soviet bear had lost its bite. The thank you who. Are you trying to ease but it isnt. Funny presidencia some of the east im going to still buy me if i know via. Men not to we the people. Thank you. All today. Its from again. With these words i wish to begin my address you cannot they sally knew from each song on that. I do not need to remind anyone here words these words come from your. Church j. Ya electrics dines. Thankful that i am for spoilage them so if thats your more you come to those i mean the board are the first and if not was on but is it then does it force but if people are just. Saying to be. Crazy then then deserve. Their ship if. You. Wish but i didnt want to be president for thirty five percent of democracy was no democracy i wanted one hundred percent democracy and Freedom Still parts of the more privacy very much. A real democratic election begin. His president ial campaign on criticizing the government this deepens existing divisions between factions on the left and right within solidarity. By taking the office of the president of the polish republic i hereby solemnly swear to hold the well being of the homeland and its people as my highest imperative so help me god. Back me. The former. Is the purpose in it says that he should step in. And he took it over. With. All the talk is that it is the Small Business of it as with most of the things off. When you should be out on the nearby was selfconscious and uncertain. I know there was no one there for. It wasnt my team it wasnt my paper. I had nothing else is that one yes and out of nothing i had to forge one hundred percent freedom and democracy. Thats for sure its clear nothing no documents. Take a seat now roles are a little different from the rules. By the letter that all of us at the committal get gassed would be his motivation of those who will do this in the wrenched. From fear not that about fifty seven that is the parents transformation brings with it painful costs with society those who want so adored him declare its violence is fault. Dear people thats why i had the gates open i ordered the gates opened so that we can talk about where we are not shot there is preferred. I see myself as president of all the polish people. Who jump ship and if i was wrong i was a big city and see if people thought things would get better right away. Thus i told them that communism was like driving in reverse at four kilometers an hour when we should have been driving forward at one hundred words any driver knows you cant drive forwards and backwards at the same time you need to stop the car before you can move forward is a bit of. If you. Didnt care for his sake it was just cognac what you say. These are difficult matters how can you make a film about it theory is one thing and in practice its another thing altogether see. In june one thousand nine hundred ninety two a list of individuals who had collaborated with the secret police. Was made public the name left for len appeared with the code name for nick the scandal would haunt him forever. Hes jewish to go through. Everest for president your stuff. Everyone. Knew him when he talked i made some mistakes but not the ones that were later fabricated i made mistakes because of my ignorance. I hereby state that the document was not a Cooperation Agreement nor was it a payroll form. Back. I could have given them false hope so i told them that i had enough i was tired. Some martyrs concluded valencia could become an agent. Not only as however. When we started fighting for independent unions when we store it is one in august if you find the tiniest flaw in my reputation then i ask of you please do not let me leave this room. If i betrayed anyone with my words my thinking or my deeds and that you would then let me not leave this room. Has the most of that in every meeting i had a clear purpose for before i went i always asked the government and other ministers to make a list of the objectives before going to deceive so they made lists and i dealt with each and every point and thats what it was about as of this of the. Search you pun but without god helped me a good because i was straightforward and accepted no arguments. Even with the i. O. C. And the removal of their troops no one talks about these incredible tanks first. Soviet army units have been stationed in poland since the end of World War Two in the early one nine hundred ninety s. There was still fifty three thousand russian soldiers in the country. I was on my way to moscow to sign a treaty but the treaty was bad. I think they wanted to withdraw their soldiers one unit at a time that would have taken two years. And i were on our way to sign the document and i said mr president you are a president and i am a president you get support if you know what they drafted and if we sign it well never be forgiven. You shouldnt sign of that fact for you but if i. Had friends he was surprised. He says yes really rewrite it so years or. So i said. Russian soldiers suffered for fifty years in poland. Relocate them to one base and leave the rest to us as thats. Thank you. Historic justice is achieved there are no more foreign troops on polish territory polands independence is finally restored. Odd. Block. Odd. Is a satirist who wears a bulletproof vest onstage. Turkish lives in berlin and hes an opponent of president. Obama takes the critical view of the turkish president s planned visit to berlin and worries about retaliation from iran supporters do everyones critics face a real threat in germany. D. W. An unusual friendship. Is the story of paul and. Is a student from cameroon the other a filmmaker from germany hes read about likely never be able to say whether he chose me or i chose him this is the story of how he met. On europes most dangerous hamas. Hamas. What began as a documentary. If i can start our first everything from. The story about those seeking refuge. And those ready to help. When paul. From the city from cameroon to berlin starts oct fourth on do you w. Into law. 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