Strike

Name: Strike
Genre: Drama
Released: June 15, 2007
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 72

2007

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Laemmle/Zeller Films | Release Date: June 15, 2007

Summary: Strike is based on the true story of a remarkable and little known figure who was integral in beginning the Solidarity movement and setting Poland on the course to democracy. It is a touching tribute to a true overlooked hero, a woman who undergoes an important awakening – the realization of an ordinary person who simply looks around herStrike is based on the true story of a remarkable and little known figure who was integral in beginning the Solidarity movement and setting Poland on the course to democracy. It is a touching tribute to a true overlooked hero, a woman who undergoes an important awakening – the realization of an ordinary person who simply looks around her and distinguishes right from wrong. (Laemmle/Zeller Films)… Expand

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 104 min

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Kevin Crust

Despite the grim Cold War environment, Schlöndorff blends, mostly successfully, goofiness and melodrama into the overall social realist tone. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Schlöndorff calls the film "a ballad inspired by true events," and its occasional bouts of clumsiness and sentimentality are inseparable from its power. Read full review

Julia Wallace

This is Iron Curtain porn at its most shameless--a rousing industrial rock song plays in the background every time Schlöndorff wants to invoke the Spirit of Labor--but Thalbach's Agnieszka is irresistible. Read full review

Jack Mathews

The dubbing from German to Polish is off-putting, but it is Schlondorff's best film since his classic "The Tin Drum." Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Continuing the late-career renaissance of historically urgent, politically engaged fiction filmmaking that began with 1999's "The Legend of Rita" and 2004's "The Ninth Day" German vet Volker Schloendorff stumbles slightly, but doesn't fall, with Poland-set Solidarity saga Strike. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

If Thalbach's fiery performance is the heart of Strike, her costar is the vast and impressive Gdansk shipyard itself. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The script plays fast and loose with the facts and adds soap-operaish touches, but Thalbach is a feisty delight. Read full review

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