Strike (Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig)

Strike (Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig) (2006)

  • 88% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 69% of users liked it
    (511 ratings)

An ordinary working woman helps to spark a revolution in this historical drama inspired by a true story. Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach) has been working as a welder in the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, since 1950, struggling to support her son since divorcing her husband. Working conditions… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 51 min.
Directed By
Volker Schlöndorff
Written By
Sylke Rene Meyer, Andreas Pfluger
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Jun 29, 2007 Limited
On DVD
Sep 25, 2007
Laemmle/Zeller Films/Red Envelope

Critic Reviews

  • Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times

    An inspiring tale of a small woman who stands tall in the face of injustice.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    It's all a lot closer to melodrama than drama, but Thalbach is a dynamo.

  • A.O. Scott, New York Times

    Rough-hewn and modest, stirring but rarely grandiose. This seems fitting, since part of what made Solidarity so inspiring was its gritty, determined refusal of ideological grandstanding or political melodrama.

  • V.A. Musetto, New York Post

    The script plays fast and loose with the facts and adds soap-operaish touches, but [Katharina] Thalbach is a feisty delight. Strike is no Tin Drum, but her performance makes the melodrama worthwhile.

  • Jan Stuart, Newsday

    It has a pumping dynamism that keeps you with it.

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