An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director:
Andrzej Wajda
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| Andrzej Chyra | ... |
Lt. Jerzy
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| Maja Ostaszewska | ... |
Anna
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| Artur Zmijewski | ... |
Andrzej
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Róza
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| Magdalena Cielecka | ... |
Agnieszka
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| Agnieszka Glinska | ... |
Irena
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| Pawel Malaszynski | ... |
Lt. Piotr
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| Maja Komorowska | ... |
Andrzej's Mother
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| Wladyslaw Kowalski | ... |
Professor Jan
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| Antoni Pawlicki | ... |
Tadeusz
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| Agnieszka Kawiorska | ... |
Ewa
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| Sergey Garmash | ... |
Maj. Popov
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| Joachim Paul Assböck | ... |
Obersturmbannführer Brunon Müller
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Waldemar Barwinski | ... |
Polish Officer
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When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow to search for her husband, the Polish captain Andrzej. She finds him together with other officers captured by the Red Army, but some minutes later he is pushed into a train, which will take all the Polish officers to a prison camp in Kozelsk in Russia. Anna and her daughter Nika is now stuck in the Soviet occupied zone, unable to go back to Krakow in the German zone, not until a brave Russian captain helps them to flee. 3 April 1940 Andrzej is transported from the prison camp in Kozelsk to the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers are killed. In 1943 the Germans capture this area and find the mass graves. 13 April 1943 they start announcing the names of the identified corpses through loudspeakers in Krakow. Anna is happy that Andrzej is not in any of the Katyn lists, which gives her some hope. 18 January 1945 the Red Army liberates Krakow from the Nazis. The Russians ... Written by Maths Jesperson {[email protected]}
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The untold story of the crime Stalin could not hide.Certificate:
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Country:
PolandRelease Date:
21 September 2007 (Poland) See more »Also Known As:
Das Massaker von Katyn See more »Box Office
Budget:
PLN 15,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$11,053 (USA) (20 February 2009)Gross:
$118,095 (USA) (29 May 2009)Company Credits
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Written by Krzysztof Penderecki
Performed by Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra
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Poland's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008). See more »Goofs
(1h 24min in): When Tadeusz tears down the poster, we can see that he rips most of it from the wall. In the next scene when soldiers come, there is a close-up of a soldier holding the pieces of the poster that are much larger than those left by Tadeusz. See more »Soundtracks
Symphony No. 3, Part 3 - Adagio, Part 4 - Passacaglia, Part 5 - VivaceWritten by Krzysztof Penderecki
Performed by Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra
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KATYN is one of the most powerful World War II films I have ever seen and from the first frame of Poles fleeing from the Germans to the rear and the Russians in the front, an audience immediately feels the horror and claustrophobia of attempting to flee from the enemy, but with a sense of absolutely no where to run. The cast is simply superb, the story one of Polish Officers who meet their fate at the hands of the enemy, but with a sense of pride in themselves and their families, and the men and women who struggled to deal with both the Germans and the Russians and survive, is one written in the annals of history, but now with the truth of the slaughter finally brought to light. The final scenes in KATYN sent me from the theater with a sense of wanting to get a deep breath of air in my lungs, and to attempt to digest the horror I had just seen on the screen. KATYN deserves the Oscar and it is a film that will haunt you forever.