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181. Lies about Solidarity | 16 | 01:20 | |
182. Most important events of Poland's post-war history | 13 | 01:42 | |
183. Negotiations for square brackets | 16 | 01:30 | |
184. Zbyszek Bujak | 13 | 01:02 | |
185. Why Zbyszek Bujak was caught | 12 | 01:29 | |
186. People believed in Solidarity | 1 | 15 | 00:36 |
187. Solidarity in the underground | 12 | 01:29 | |
188. The cost of martial law | 20 | 01:16 | |
189. The interned: Wałęsa in prison | 14 | 01:13 | |
190. My hope overcomes my scepticism | 15 | 00:55 |
When Solidarity was formed, it was everything to the people. They attached a mass of hopes to it, some of which were impossible to fulfil but there was a great hope that conditions would improve, that there'd be goods in the shops, that there'd be democracy, that there'd be independence, that there'd be equality among people, and so on. All the dreams, all the aspirations of millions of people were there, it was the nation's great hope.
„Solidarność” gdy powstała, to stała się dla ludzi wszystkim. Pokładali w niej masę nadziei, z których część była niemożliwa do zrealizowania nawet, ale... na poprawę bytu; na to, że będzie lepiej w sklepach; na to, że będzie demokracja; na to, że będzie niepodległość; że będzie równość między ludźmi, i tak dalej. Wszystkie marzenia, wszystkie aspiracje, no, milionów ludzi tam się znalazły – była to wielka nadzieja narodu.
Jan Józef Lipski (1926-1991) was one of Poland's best known political activists. He was also a writer and a literary critic. As a soldier in the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. In 1976, following worker protests, he co-founded the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR). His active opposition to Poland's communist authorities led to his arrest and imprisonment on several occasions. In 1987, he re-established and headed the Polish Socialist Party. Two years later, he was elected to the Polish Senate. He died in 1991 while still in office. For his significant work, Lipski was honoured with the Cross of the Valorous (Krzyż Walecznych), posthumously with the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1991) and with the highest Polish decoration, the Order of the White Eagle (2006).
Title: People believed in Solidarity
Listeners: Marcel Łoziński Jacek Petrycki
Film director Marcel Łoziński was born in Paris in 1940. He graduated from the Film Directing Department of the National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź in 1971. In 1994, he was nominated for an American Academy Award and a European Film Academy Award for the documentary, 89 mm from Europe. Since 1995, he has been a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science awarding Oscars. He lectured at the FEMIS film school and the School of Polish Culture of Warsaw University. He ran documentary film workshops in Marseilles. Marcel Łoziński currently lectures at Andrzej Wajda’s Master School for Film Directors. He also runs the Dragon Forum, a European documentary film workshop.
Cinematographer Jacek Petrycki was born in Poznań, Poland in 1948. He has worked extensively in Poland and throughout the world. His credits include, for Agniezka Holland, Provincial Actors (1979), Europe, Europe (1990), Shot in the Heart (2001) and Julie Walking Home (2002), for Krysztof Kieslowski numerous short films including Camera Buff (1980) and No End (1985). Other credits include Journey to the Sun (1998), directed by Jesim Ustaoglu, which won the Golden Camera 300 award at the International Film Camera Festival, Shooters (2000) and The Valley (1999), both directed by Dan Reed, Unforgiving (1993) and Betrayed (1995) by Clive Gordon both of which won the BAFTA for best factual photography. Jacek Petrycki is also a teacher and a filmmaker.
Tags: solidarity, democracy, independence, equality, aspirations, hope
Duration: 36 seconds
Date story recorded: October 1989
Date story went live: 15 March 2011