Katyn (2007)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

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:

Officer | Slaughter | Katyn Forest | Nazi Uniform | Plight

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 12 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Andrzej Chyra	...	Lt. Jerzy
Maja Ostaszewska	...	Anna
Artur Zmijewski	...	Andrzej
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
Antoni Pawlicki	...	Tadeusz
Agnieszka Kawiorska	...	Ewa
Sergey Garmash	...	Maj. Popov
Joachim Paul Assböck	...	Obersturmbannführer Brunon Müller (as Joachim Assböck)
Waldemar Barwinski	...	Polish Officer

Also Known As:

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

Runtime:

Germany:118 min (Berlin International Film Festival) | Argentina:118 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | USA:121 min

Country:

Poland

Language:

Polish | Russian | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Sweden:15 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-15 | Ireland:15A

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:

References Vesyolye rebyata (1934)

Katyn deserves an Oscar!!!!!

Great movie! I hope that this movie will open the west's eyes on this massacre, though Franklin D. Roosevelt and W. Churchill knew about it (I recommend the book "A question of honor").

Mr. "Mythbreaker" is BTW clearly out of line in his comments which are purely political regarding this movie. At a recent visit of the Polish PM, Russia's President Mr. V. Putin admitted that the Katyn massacre was a Stalinist crime.

In addition the movie shows that Wajda's aim was not to disgrace the Russians (you will see that in the movie, don't want to spoil). I think the movie rather shows how cruel people can get.

The bad news: These kind of massacres still happen (see Rwanda, Sudan etc.)

Katyn deserves an Oscar!!!!!