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Katyn

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Original title

Katyn

Year

2007

Running time

115 min.

Country

Poland

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Screenwriter

Andrzej Wajda, Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski. Story: Andrzej Mularczyk

Cast

Music

Krzysztof Penderecki

Cinematography

Pawel Edelman

Producer

Akson Studio

Genre

Drama. War | II World War. Based on a true story

Synopsis

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 in 1939.

Rankings Position

#89 Best Polish Movies of all time

Awards: 2007: Nominated for Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture

2008: European Film Awards (EFA): European Prix D'Excellence.

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Critics' reviews

"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: SFGATE
"This plays almost like an academic master class, meticulously exploring the event's ramifications but only catching full fire at the end."

Leslie Felperin: Variety
"Wajda musters the power of classical filmmaking and personal emotional investment to dramatize a stunning atrocity long covered up."

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
"A history lesson for a country and a people forced to forget at gunpoint."

Ty Burr: Boston Globe
"The period sets, costumes and cinematography all superbly recreate the brutal era, grand illusions and everyday suffering of the Poles under both the Nazis and the Soviets."

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"Wajda, who lost his father in the purge, gives the film an awful silence and mystery at its core."

Kyle Smith: New York Post

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21 My Favorite Polish Films (9)

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