Desc: Far from Poland: Directed by Jill Godmilow. With Ruth Maleczech, Mark Margolis, Olek Krupa, John Perkins. An attempt to cover Poland's Solidarity movement - the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country inspired by the strikes at the Gdansk Shipyard in August 1980 - and its shaping of modern Polish politics. When denied permission to shoot on location, the filmmaker made a movie anyway, and hired American actors to re-enact interviews that were printed in Solidarity pamphlets and publications.