Katyń (2007)

Recommended

Poland

Feature Film

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Writers: Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Mularczyk

Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman

Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki

Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka, Jan Englert, Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Glinska, Pawel Malaszynski, Maja Komorowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Antoni Pawlicki, Agnieszka Kawiorska, Sergey Garmash

Wajda’s unsparing, upsetting, and rightfully angry film examines, by way of a number of contrasting human experiences, the Katyń massacre of 1940 (and its subsequent cover-up), when Soviet forces systematically executed (with a bullet to the back of the head) Polish prisoners-of-war. Iain.Stott