"Katyn" tells the story of the so-called Katyn lie. It uses stories from an authentic diary found during the exhumation in 1943 to tell the fate of four fictional officers and their families.
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In March 1940 Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the executions of 22,000 Polish army and police officers, intellectuals and clergy. The killings took place in the spring of the same year in the Katyn Forest. The victims, mostly from POW camps in Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszkow, were shot in the back of the head.
The Nazis discovered the mass graves during their march on Moscow in the fall of 1941, but Soviet propaganda blamed the deaths on Adolf Hitler and punished anyone speaking the truth with harsh prison terms. In 1990, Moscow admitted that dictator Josef Stalin's secret police were responsible.
I should add that Wajda's father was among those 20 000 officers killed in this massacre.
I remember reading about the Katyn massacre years ago, when it was (I guess) first being "officially" blamed on the Russians. Probably in the early 90's, then. _________________ An apple a day....
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: "Katyn" nominated!
greg in noord-frankrijk wrote:
KSa wrote:
I am happy to announce that Andrzej Wajda's film "Katyn" has been nominated as Oscar candidate.
That is justice to a great film maker and Polish history.
He also made "Danton" (in the early 80s I think) with Gerard Depardieu as Danton and Wojciech Pszoniak as Robespierre. I remember when I watched this film as a child - this is how I learnt about la révolution française for the first time.
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