Katyn (2007)

Director:

Andrzej Wajda

Writers:

Andrzej Mularczyk (story)
Przemyslaw Nowakowski (writer)

Release Date:

21 September 2007 (Poland)

Genre:

Drama | History | War

Plot:

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940. |

Plot Keywords:

Military Officer | Genocide | Pow | Polish History | Death Of Brother

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins

Cast

Artur Zmijewski	...	Andrzej
Maja Ostaszewska	...	Anna
Andrzej Chyra	...	Lt. Jerzy
Danuta Stenka	...	Róza
Jan Englert	...	General
Magdalena Cielecka	...	Agnieszka
Agnieszka Glinska	...	Irena
Pawel Malaszynski	...	Lt. Piotr
Maja Komorowska	...	Andrzej's Mother
Wladyslaw Kowalski	...	Professor Jan
Oleg Drach	...	Commisar (as Oleg Dracz)
Oleg Savkin	...	NKWD Officer (as Oleg Sawkin)
Sergei Garmash	...	Maj. Popov (as Siergiej Garmasz)
Antoni Pawlicki	...	Tadeusz
Agnieszka Kawiorska	...	Ewa

Also Known As:

Post mortem. Opowiesc katynska (Poland) (working title)

Runtime:

Germany:118 min (Berlin International Film Festival)

Country:

Poland

Language:

Polish | Russian | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Filming Locations:

Kasina Wielka, Poland

Company:

Akson Studio

Trivia:

The director's father died in this massacre. Andrzej Wajda was only 13 years old. His father's remains were never found.

Goofs:

Continuity: (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.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)

Katyn - The Prelude

An estimated minimum of 3 million Poles were killed by the Stalinist regime; but as Stalin observed "When one person dies it's a tragedy; when a million people die it's a statistic".

The scope of these activities would be considered genocide, if that term was used to describe political and social, as well as racial and religious populations.

So - less "statistically"- mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, kids, and friends were murdered for the political ends of those who now wish to remain faceless and unknown. It is critical, if we are to emerge as a humane people, that the unknown and faceless multitudes of both victims and their oppressors and killers, be reveled. This movie perhaps, is the first step in that direction.