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Directed by multi-award winning veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda and nominated for Best Foreign Film at this years Academy Awards, Katyń investigates the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Secret Police during World War II. Among those killed was Wajda’s own father.
The disappearance of over 15 000 officers in 1940 was a mystery at first and news of the tragedy was not revealed until the spring of 1943, after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union uncovered the mass graves in Russia’s Katyn Forest. During the USSR’s post-war occupation of Poland, Soviet propagandists blamed the deaths on the Nazis and set out to punish anyone speaking the truth. After fifty years of cold war secrecy, the Kremlin officially confessed in 1990 that Stalin and the KGB were responsible for the crime.
Katyn uses stories from authentic diaries and letters to tell the fate of four officers and their families, and one woman’s courageous determination to uncover the truth.
Special Features:
* Andrzej Wajda Interviewed on the set of Katyn
* Katyn Making Of
* Polish Premier
* Theatrical Trailer
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