Tribeca Film Center: Walesa. Man of Hope, selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at at the 86th Academy Awards

A film by Andrzej Wajda
Screenplay by Janusz Głowacki
Director of Photography: Paweł Edelmann, PSC; Creative Support and Casting: Ewa Brodzka; Sound: Jacek Hamela; Makeup: Waldemar Pokromski, Tomasz Matraszek; Costume Design: Magdalena Biedrzycka; Production Design: Magdalena Dipont; Editing: Grażyna Gradoń, PSM, Milenia Fiedler, PSM; Production Manager: Paweł Gabryś; Executive Producers: Katarzyna Fukacz-Cebula, Małgorzata Fogel-Gabryś; Producer: Michał Kwieciński

Presented by Akson Studio and Polish Film Institute, Walesa. Man of Hope has been selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at at the 86th Academy Awards.
How was it possible for a single person to change the world so dramatically? It is as much a political as a psychological question. Legendary director Andrzej Wajda, intruding into a private, even intimate sphere of Lech Wałęsa – the Polish “Solidarity“ Trade Union’s leader - attempts to capture this incredible metamorphosis from a simple worker into a charismatic leader. Wałęsa’s controversial persona, fostering heated discussions to this very day, helped millions of people release suppressed dreams of freedom, setting the stage for the political transformation in Poland beyond anyone’s imagination at the time.
 

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Monday, December 9, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:15 PM (EST)
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