Lech Wałęsa (commonly rendered Walesa) (Polish: [ˈlɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa] ( listen), English: /ˌlɛk vəˈwɛnsə/ or /wɔːˈlɛnsə/; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995.
Wałęsa was an electrician by trade, with no higher education. Soon after beginning work at the Gdańsk (then, "Lenin") Shipyards, he became a trade-union activist. For this he was persecuted by the Polish communist government, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980 he was instrumental in negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Gdańsk Agreement between striking workers and the government, and he became a co-founder of the Solidarity trade-union movement. Arrested again after martial law was imposed and Solidarity was outlawed, upon release he continued his activism and was prominent in the establishment of the 1989 Round Table Agreement that led to semi-free parliamentary elections in June 1989 and to a Solidarity-led government.
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Morris was born in Hewlett, New York on February 5, 1948. When he was two years old, his father died of a heart attack. His mother, a Juilliard graduate, supported Morris and his brother as a music teacher. Morris attended Hewlett Elementary School in a class with Brent Glass, Tony Kornheiser and former Village Voice editor David Schneiderman.[citation needed]
After being treated for strabismus in childhood, he refused to wear an eye patch. As a consequence, he has limited sight in one eye and lacks normal stereoscopic vision.
In the 10th grade, Morris attended the Putney School, a boarding school in Vermont. He began playing the cello, spending a summer in France studying music under the acclaimed Nadia Boulanger, who also taught Morris' future collaborator Philip Glass. Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he "read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt ("I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him."
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
Lech Walesa: The Shipyard | Peace Films by Errol Morris | The New York Times
Lech Walesa - Legendary 1989 Speech in U.S. Congress
TW SB a Lech Wałęsa
Debata Prezydencka 1995 - Lech Wałęsa vs. Aleksander Kwaśniewski 12.11.1995
Lech Wałęsa w RG: Rzeczy, które obiecał Andrzej Duda są nie do zrealizowania
Jan Pospieszalski: Bliżej - Lech Wałęsa, a SB
Lech Wałęsa: Gdybym startował w wyborach prezydenckich, musiałbym połowę Polski zamknąć
Solidarity Poland 1981
Tomasz Lis na żywo - Lech Wałęsa: przegrałem wszystko
LECH WAŁĘSA TW BOLEK
Lech Wałęsa na ASP (Przystanek Woodstock) - Najbardziej wstydliwy monment dla polski
Lech Wałęsa o gejach
Lech Walesa On Obama's Leadership
Wałęsa Prezydent - film
Plot
Resemblance to Chuck Norris changed the life of Jacek Pieniazek. Ordinary worker has become a local celebrity and an icon of good humor. As an impresario he employs in his agency other look-alikes such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Lech Walesa, and Elvis Presley. The charms of living the double life of well-known persons is their daily bread. In 2012, Jacek finally meets the real Chuck Norris, whom he doubles in the bank commercial. For 20 years he is living "In the shadow of Chuck Norris."
Keywords: doppelganger, look-alike
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Jacek Pieniazek is the most famous Polish Chuck Norris look-alike. He runs an agency in Warsaw that hires look-alikes for events such as concerts or private parties. Dealing with their ego problems and using his own understanding of Zen, he plans to organize a national look-alike show in Paris.
Keywords: celebrity, double, look-alike, polish, star
The Celebrities and Their Double Life
Plot
At the beginning of 1990s growing of NATO with the admission of Eastern European countries was called mission impossible. Documentary "The Real End of the Cold War" tells how mission impossible has been successfully completed.Great politics, interests of superpowers, lobbing, diplomatic games, hard work and strong faith are subjects of Jerzy Sladkowski's film. United by common goal and using the right moment, we made Polish dreams come true. Seen from the Polish perspective, those dreams were passed down from generation to generation. Globally, our accession to NATO meant political victory of the Treaty in the Cold War. Russian interlocutors admit it saying, the West turned out to be smarter than they thought.
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Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up by his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20th century. An outstanding student with a magnetic personality, he dreams of becoming an actor. When his homeland is invaded by the Nazis in 1939, he and his friends secretly oppose the systematic persecution of their Polish culture. But, with the death of his father and the lacerating solitude which accompanies this loss, Karol's personal "resistance" takes on a new form and he decides to follow a priestly vocation. At the end of the war, Poland falls into the grip of Soviet totalitarianism. The newly ordained Karol is constantly surrounded by young people whom he teaches to safeguard and defend human dignity. He could be considered a serious threat to the regime, but the Communist authorities merely see him as an innocuous intellectual and even encourage his nomination for the position of bishop. Karol Wojtila is the youngest bishop in the history of Poland. When he is appointed Cardinal, Karol is more intransigent in the spiritual guidance of his homeland, becoming a real and proper thorn in the side of the Communist government. And the whole Catholic world begins to wonder who he is. On the death of Pope John Paul I in 1978, the cardinals of the Conclave decide that Woytjla is the right man to lead replace him. Thus Karol leaves his beloved Poland to become Pope John Paul II. His free, unconventional attitude alarms several prelates, but immediately wins the hearts of the people. In a age paralyzed by fear and ideology, the new Pope shows everybody again the overwhelming fascination of Christianity: this is the beginning of a deep change, which will affect the whole world and the Church itself, as a sort of "contagion". He miraculously survives an attempt on his life in 1981, and not even this event curbs his mission. Thanks to his unshakable tenacity , Pope John Paul II helps to change the course of history: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 decrees the collapse of Communism. But the Pope does not stop being the voice of Christ, even among the injustices of the capitalistic Western world, even among the provocations and challenges of modern times . The Great Jubilee of 2000 is the most moving evidence of his mission: 3 million young people in love with the Pope gather in Rome, bringing with them the whole world's hopes. This world has learned to look to him, now old and shaky, as a ray of light in the heart of darkness.
Keywords: assassination-attempt, bishop, cardinal-the-priest, catholic-church, character-name-in-title, charisma, church, crowd, destiny, fame
The faith to inspire millions begins with the power of one.
Lech Walesa: The Shipyard | Peace Films by Errol Morris | The New York Times
Lech Walesa - Legendary 1989 Speech in U.S. Congress
TW SB a Lech Wałęsa
Debata Prezydencka 1995 - Lech Wałęsa vs. Aleksander Kwaśniewski 12.11.1995
Lech Wałęsa w RG: Rzeczy, które obiecał Andrzej Duda są nie do zrealizowania
Jan Pospieszalski: Bliżej - Lech Wałęsa, a SB
Lech Wałęsa: Gdybym startował w wyborach prezydenckich, musiałbym połowę Polski zamknąć
Solidarity Poland 1981
Tomasz Lis na żywo - Lech Wałęsa: przegrałem wszystko
LECH WAŁĘSA TW BOLEK
Lech Wałęsa na ASP (Przystanek Woodstock) - Najbardziej wstydliwy monment dla polski
Lech Wałęsa o gejach
Lech Walesa On Obama's Leadership
Wałęsa Prezydent - film
Jak "Bolek" - Lech Wałęsa, zniszczył pierwszą Solidarność?
Lech Walesa "The Man who Broke the Iron Curtain"
LECH WAŁĘSA PREZYDENTEM! - PKF nr 50 z 1990 r.
Zakazany, ukrywany 27 lat film. CAŁOŚĆ ! - Jak Bolek Wałęsa zniszczył Solidarność
Debata telewizyjna Lech Wałęsa -- Alfred Miodowicz, 30 listopada 1988
Szymon Majewski Show- Lech Wałęsa na Stadionie Narodowym
Lech Walesa - Man of Freedom
Wałęsa "Bolek" donosił na kolegów
Jerzy Kryszak-Lech Wałęsa
Eddy's Diary: Eddy Grant interviews Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa à Paris - Interview
Lech Wałęsa interview 1
Lech Wałęsa interview 4
Pardonnez-moi - L'interview de Lech Walesa
Founding Bloggers: Lech Walesa, Adam Andrzejewski Interview
Lech Wałęsa interview 2
Lech Wałęsa interview 3
Lech Wałęsa interview 9
Lech Wałęsa interview 13
Lech Walesa Interview ITB Berlin march 8, 2011 Opening
INTERVIEW - Andrzej Wajda and Lech Walesa on the importan...
EDDY's DIARY: EDDY GRANT interviews LECH WALESA pt 4
face to Face with Desi Anwar-Interview with President of Poland Lech Walesa 4
FRANCE 24 The Interview - Lech Walesa, former president of Poland
Lech Walesa on Leadership: The Harvard Conversation
INTERVIEW - Andrzej Wajda and Lech Walesa on Walesa's opi...
Lech Walesa - Alles began in Danzig - interview bei polnischen Versagern
INTERVIEW - Andrzej Wajda and Lech Walesa on figures of i...
INTERVIEW - Lech Walesa on his image in the film at 'Wale...
Interview with Polish MEP Lech Walesa -