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...LIAM In Depression-era England, a father loses his shipyard job, drifts into native fascism and, finally, into a tragic embrace of terrorism. Meantime his adorable young son (Anthony Barrows) struggles, with no less intensity, with the issues of growing up. Director Stephen Frears resists moralizing Dad's story or sentimentalizing the son's. The result is a tough, touching, instructive portrait of an almost lost world...
...Britain during the Great Depression, Dad (Ian Hart) loses his job when the shipyard is closed. His youngest child, Liam, played by the utterly adorable Anthony Borrows, is, meantime, priest-ridden as he confronts near occasions of sins both mortal and venial. We, of course, settle in for another movie in which a hard-pressed family smiles cheerfully through tough times. But don't get too comfortable. In his misery the father embraces anti-Semitism and native fascism, the boy's torments become distinctly unfunny, and this little film, unsparing but never unsympathetic, emerges as one of the year...
Later, what's left of the Kursk will be towed to another shipyard, where it will be defueled and scrapped...
...Szlanta was in charge of restructuring failing companies for the privately owned Polish Bank of Development. On the advice of Szlanta, the bank took over management of Gdynia's shares in 1996. He then used his personal banking connections to obtain desperately needed credits that would help boost the shipyard's output. He put the workers on round-the-clock shifts, which boosted productivity. In 1997 the shipyard was turning a profit of $16 million on $300 million in sales. The next year, net profits nearly doubled, to $30 million. Szlanta is highly motivated to keep the yard...
...when Szlanta took over the celebrated Gdansk shipyard, birthplace of Solidarity, the firm was burdened with $160 million in debt and an entrenched culture of trade unionism. As a condition of the purchase, Szlanta guaranteed 2,200 jobs for at least five years. He has overdelivered on that promise. He's boosted the payroll to 4,000 and invested in the retraining of workers. "Some people believed history would pay their current bills," says Szlanta of union resistance to his plans. But the union leaders were right about one thing. The recent success of Poland's shipyards is proof that...