Radio plays

'Reports'

Author: Hanna Krall (Poland 1937)
Genre: Feature
Production: SR 1981
Director: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Werner Klippert
Length: 79 min.
Translation: Carl Horst Hiller

Contributors:
Reporter: Brigitte Röttgers
Fischer: Rainer Pigulla
Party Secretary: Edgar Ott
Crane operator: Charlotte Joeres
1st speaker: Gunter Cremer
2nd speaker: Brigitte Dryander

Content:
Poland is at the forefront of the European Union's eastward enlargement. An important part of its recent history on the road to democracy is vividly reflected in this semi-documentary radio play based on three conversations.
The first report, "Words for Three Days", is about Leszek Gozdzik, a worker activist at the then largest Polish car factory in Zerán. Gozdzik played an important role in the seizure of power by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956.
In the second "View from the Window", the focus is on a man who, as the highest official of the Polish Communist Party, confronted the rebelling workers' crowd in Radom in 1976.
Anna Walentynowicz, the main character of the third part "People may not be bad", was one of the leading figures of Solidarnosc, along with Lech Walesa. She was the person whose dismissal in August 1980 led to the legendary strike in the shipyard.


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