Description: Jerzy Stuhr portrays Ludwik Danielak, an out-of-work television personality trying for a comeback by producing a new program. The show will star Zbignew Tataj (Mieczyslaw Frankaszek), who is scheduled to meet the public with a national promotional tour. The star becomes disillusioned when he is forced to read a prepared speech to the fans and is not allowed to deviate from the text. The surprised Stuhr is left alone when Tataj becomes disgusted and walks off the stage in the middle of a program. This feature won the top prize at the 1987 Moscow Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Long a favourite of Polish audiences with his irrepressible comedies, Juliusz Machulski sets the standard with his opener Sushi - a laugh-out-loud satire which you don't need to be Polish to appreciate. This is true for the vast majority of Solidarity, Solidarity's episodes: even audiences who know little about Solidarnosc and its impact will find themselves very quickly and comprehensively brought up to speed. While Jerzy Domaradzki's drama-documentary Boards is movingly inspiring and Piotr Trzaskalski's Ballpen a twist-in-the-tale of the driest Polish humour, the pick of the bunch is arguably Robert Glinski's Landscape - a near-wordless, impressionistic meander/wander round the Gdansk shipyards as they now are: a home for flora and fauna, and more a focus of tourism than of heavy industry. Japanese visitors are guided through various historic sites, and the camera glides along with them.

The venerable ‘portmanteau’ genre of filmmaking can often be a recipe for disaster or, even worse, terminal blandness. So the consistently impressive level of invention and achievement on show here is remarkable indeed. Added together, we get a real feel for Solidarity's birth, struggles and consequences - and this astonishing project ends up as even more than the sum of its accomplished parts.