Andrzej Wajda:
I waited quite a long time to make a movie about Lech Walesa, the final part of the triptych: "Man of Marble", "Man of Iron", and "Man of Hope" - Lech Walesa. How did he become a leader of the strike and finally of the entire Solidarity movement? The participants of the events of August 1980 in Gdansk, were the witnesses to the decisive moments, when Lech Walesa climbed the gate and declared that victory was ours, and the crowd was cheering. I'd like to add, that was not the only scene I wanted to make this movie for. There is another important scene, another part of Lech's activity. After the martial law was introduced, he was transported by helicopter to Arlamiv at the Soviet border. That meant he could be transported further any minute and captured. At that time, deprived of his advisors, who constituted the good spirit of Lech Walesa, he made some decisions on his own. They proved to be decisions of a real people's leader. The leader of workers. Although his life was in danger, Walesa's position remained the same. That way we all realized we can't permanently live under the martial law. I think Walesa's role was decisive again. He showed us our way to freedom. Patterning itself on Poland, the Berlin Wall fell.

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Wajda : une leçon de cinéma (2016)

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