Few people can claim to have changed the world in which they lived in a profound way. Among these few, we can count Lech Walesa, a common dock worker and electrician who found himself inadvertently leading a silent revolution which resulted not only in the dissolution of Poland’s dictatorial regime, but also helped completely destroy the crumbling soviet empire in the 1980s. Polish master Andrzej Wajda tells the true story of one of the foremost figures in his country’s recent history. Selected for the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival 2013.