CITIZENS
Price: $265.00 Code: 1852 |
Directed by Richard Adams
1986, color, 58 mins.
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Portrays human dimensions of Poland's Solidarity movement in 1980-81 that were obscured by Cold-War rhetoric: the efforts of workers, artists and intellectuals who joined together to create a thriving civil society within a totalitarian state. Solidarity activists describe how they learned that to protect their own interests they had to fight for the interests of Polish society as a whole. Their self-governing trade union won the trust and support of virtually all segments of society by providing the only available channel for the local grass-roots initiatives, open debate, and democratic action that ultimately led to non-violent systemic change in Poland and beyond.
—William Styron, writer
"The title has deeper significance than most people initially will realize - but they will do so as they watch."
—Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International Studies
"In one of the best films on Solidarity I have seen, Adams brilliantly evokes the way a social movement empowered the subjects of an authoritarian state to become active citizens deeply engaged in public life."
—Jan T. Gross, Department of History, Princeton University, author of Neighbors
1986, color, 58 mins.
Purchase: $265 Rental: $125
**For home video pricing, call 800-723-5522.
Portrays human dimensions of Poland's Solidarity movement in 1980-81 that were obscured by Cold-War rhetoric: the efforts of workers, artists and intellectuals who joined together to create a thriving civil society within a totalitarian state. Solidarity activists describe how they learned that to protect their own interests they had to fight for the interests of Polish society as a whole. Their self-governing trade union won the trust and support of virtually all segments of society by providing the only available channel for the local grass-roots initiatives, open debate, and democratic action that ultimately led to non-violent systemic change in Poland and beyond.
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"A vivid, evocative, powerful documentary."—William Styron, writer
"The title has deeper significance than most people initially will realize - but they will do so as they watch."
—Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International Studies
"In one of the best films on Solidarity I have seen, Adams brilliantly evokes the way a social movement empowered the subjects of an authoritarian state to become active citizens deeply engaged in public life."
—Jan T. Gross, Department of History, Princeton University, author of Neighbors