Lech Wałęsa
Birthday
1943/09/29 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Popowo, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
Also know as
Lech Walesa
Biography
Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule...Read more
Acting
(2023) In the Grip of Gazprom
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1981) The Birth of Solidarity
as Self
(1991) Człowiek ze studni
as Self
(2023) Der General und der Elektriker: Machtkampf in Polen
as Self
(2022) Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga
as Self
(2008) Gra o Nobla
as we własnej osobie
(1982) Workers '80
as Self
(2007) Hammer & Tickle
as Self
(1981) Man of Iron
as ---
(2000) Bajland
as Lech Wałęsa
(2019) Tell No One
as Self (archive footage)
(2019) Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
(2019) Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
(2019) 1979: Big Bang of the Present
as Self - Shipyard Worker (1979)
(2020) Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
as Self (archive footage)
(2011) Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
as Self
(2011) The Last Days of the USSR
as Self
(2005) Solidarność, Solidarność...
as Self
(2017) Wałęsa by Wałęsa
as Self
(1999) Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
as Self (archive footage)
(1995) Goldene Henne
as Self
(1975) Apostrophes
as Self
(1998) Alpha Forum
as Self
(1999) maybrit illner
as Self
(2019) Ingemann og Jerntæppets fald
as Lech Walesa