Polish actress Agnieszka Grochowska has joined the cast of Andrezej Wajda’s highly-anticipated
Walesa biopic, playing Danuta Wałesa the wife of Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa.
Robert Wieckiewicz stars as
Walesa in the period drama, which begins shooting Dec. 1 in Warsaw and Gdansk. Both Wieckiewicz and Groschowska star in Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness, which is Poland’s candidate for the 2012 Foreign Language Oscars.