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Lech Walesa
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Lech Wałęsa
Acting
Biography
Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
While working at the Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
In the Grip of Gazprom
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Be Somebody
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen
as Self
Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga
as Self
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
as Self (archive footage)
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
1979: Big Bang of the Present
as Self - Shipyard Worker (1979)
Tylko nie mów nikomu
as Self (archive footage)
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
1989
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
