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Strike
Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
2007
1h 44m
Drama
6.8
87%
69%
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A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
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Cast of Strike
Katharina Thalbach
Agnieszka Kowalska
Andrzej Chyra
elektryk Leszek
Dominique Horwitz
Kazimierz
Wojciech Solarz
Ewa Telega
Barbara Jonak
Maria Maj
Krzysztof Kiersznowski
Andrzej Grabowski
Wojciech Pszoniak
Jowita Budnik
Joanna Bogacka
Marek Brodzki
Katarzyna Filimoniuk
Henryk Gołębiewski
Marta Jankowska
Wojciech Kalarus
Dorota Kolak
Hubert Koprowicz
Magdalena Smalara
Anna Wydra
Dariusz Kowalski
brygadzista Bochnak
Strike Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Jan Stuart
It has a pumping dynamism that keeps you with it.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
An inspiring tale of a small woman who stands tall in the face of injustice.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's all a lot closer to melodrama than drama, but Thalbach is a dynamo.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A cinematic tribute to a genuine working-class hero whose courage and zeal for justice fueled the Solidarity Movement in Poland.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The script plays fast and loose with the facts and adds soap-operaish touches, but [Katharina] Thalbach is a feisty delight. Strike is no Tin Drum, but her performance makes the melodrama worthwhile.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Rough-hewn and modest, stirring but rarely grandiose. This seems fitting, since part of what made Solidarity so inspiring was its gritty, determined refusal of ideological grandstanding or political melodrama.
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Emanuel Levy
An unabashedly sentimental, old-fashioned drama of the woman who inspired Poland's Solidarity that by comparison makes the celebration of American working-class heroines--in Norma Rae, Silkwood, North Country--subtle and complex.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's a deeply affecting drama that pays tribute to a woman who's little known outside of Poland.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Schlndorff settles for a rather passive-aggressive account of a resistance fighter's life, made up of strung-together vignettes that lack for specificity and motivating example.
Village Voice
Julia Wallace
This is Iron Curtain porn at its most shameless -- a rousing industrial rock song plays in the background every time [director] Schlndorff wants to invoke the Spirit of Labor -- but [actress] Thalbach's Agnieszka is irresistible.
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
German vet Volker Schloendorff stumbles slightly, but doesn't fall, with Poland-set Solidarity saga Strike.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Kudos to Schlndorff for celebrating the woman who sacrificed that glory for the greater good--and who continues to fight.
WBAI Web Radio
Prairie Miller
The only genuine moment in Strike, is when a skeptical worker asks the protesters, is your solution to let the West march in? The filmmaker, regrettably, never has the courage to respond.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Debatable as history, 'Strike' sets its camera eye on the underplayed "secular saints" who contribute to that history.
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