Katyń
Fiction | Poland | 2007 | 118 min | Polish, Russian, German, Ukrainian
Synopsis
Beginning of World War II. Following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, by Joseph Stalin's order, on September 17, 1939, Red Army units illegally entered Polish soil. Consequently, all Polish officers found themselves under Soviet slavery. A story of Polish officers killed during World War II by the Russian secret police at Katyn in 1940; a portrait of women who were unaware of the crime, who were waiting for their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. An uncompromising agreement with the lie, which forced Poland to forget its heroes.
Director
Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland, known for Ziemia Obiecana (1975), Czlowiek z Zelaza (1981) and Katyn (2007), this one nominated for Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2008 and honored with many other awards and nominations around the world.
It has screened in Mexico before
