Shown: January 3, 2012 at 6pm
Director : Andrzej Wajda
Country : Poland
Release Date : 2007
Duration : 115 mins
Language : Polish and Russian
Subtitles : Yes
SHORT-LISTED : BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM AT 2008 OSCARS
In the spring of 1940, following the invasion of Poland by Russia’s Red Army in 1939, up to 20,000 Polish officers and soldiers were executed by Stalin’s secret police. The men were imprisoned in three POW camps, one of which was based in the Katyn forest. Working from a novel by Andrzej Mularczyk and real life accounts, Katyn tells the story of four fictional families, forever separated from one another. A brutal and devastating work.
“Wajda’s intensity and passion, as well as his intelligence and craft, are unmistakable from the very first sequence. Virtually from the first shot.” (Mick LaSalle – San Francisco Chronicle)