cast
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Richard Crenna
The Narrator
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Bernard Hill
Lech Walesa
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Alec McCowen
Rakowski
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Roy Kinnear
Kania
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John Woodvine
Gierek
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Don Henderson
Kuron
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Frank Middlemass
Brezhnev
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John Bluthal
Babiuch
- Richard Kane Jaruzelski
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Tom Wilkinson
Rulewski
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Gary Waldhorn
Jagielski
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Jonathan Adams
Gwiazda
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George Irving
Aristov (as George Waring)
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Martin Wyldeck
Olszowski
- Peter Bayliss Barcikowski
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Frank Ellis
Miner
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Colin Jeavons
Glemp
- Michael N. Harbour Lis
- John Antrobus 1st. Witness
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Mark Dignam
2nd Witness
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Leon Lissek
3rd Witness
- Anthony May 4th Witness
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James Warrior
5th Witness
- Gordon Gostelow Mazowiecki
- Neil McCaul Steel Worker
- Bill McCabe Finanski
- Matthew Long Szozopanski
- Nicholas McArdle Party Speaker
- Henry Moxon Cardinal Wyozyski
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Ralph Nossek
Official
- Robert Percival Jablonski
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John Rogan
Jurczyk
- Philip Raymond Geremek
- Robin Summers Bujak
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Bob Sessions
Reporter
- Trevor T. Smith Secretary
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Jon Glover
Picket
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Frank Jakeman
Pressman/Photographer
- Stuart Cox General Jaruzelski's Secretary
- Ronald Forfar Prisoner