Film and Protest – Popular Uprisings in the Cold War 6

A film that was to be made impossible: In December 1980, a memorial act in front of the Gdańsk shipyard commemorates the people killed in the revolt ten years earlier.

The authorities decide on the future of Solidarność, the masses protest in the streets. A general strike is in the air. For a moment, political change seems possible.

Can a dwarf be dangerous? When martial law is imposed, a protest movement forms in Poland that undermines the order of the regime with subversive artistic interventions.

A buoyant revolutionary fantasy that hides its subversive potential behind funny figures and upbeat music in 1979 Poland. Honi soit qui mal y pense.