KATYN (2007)

ANDRZEJ WAJDA

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Cast

ANDRZEJ CHYRA MAJA OSTASZEWSKA ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI DANUTA STENKA JAN ENGLERT MAGDALENA CIELECKA

Plot

Based on the novel 'Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn' by Andrzej Mularczyk this film tells the horrific story of the 1940 Soviet NKVD's massacre, and subsequent cover-up, of an estimated 22,000, mainly Polish, military officers, police and intellectuals. Rarely does a film about the horrors of organised genocide achieve in its representation such an honest and harrowing account of crimes against humanity.