Man of Iron

In 1980s Poland, Maciej Tomczyk, son of Mateusz Birkut, a shipyard worker and union leader from Wajda's earlier film Man of Marble, is a young activist leading a strike against the Communist authorities. An undercover radio journalist named Winkel (Marian Opania) is sent to Gdańsk to investigate Tomczyk, but as he becomes increasingly sympathetic to the strikers' cause, he ultimately joins them and plays a part in persuading the Polish government to recognize workers' right to an independent union.