Katyn

09-05-2008 08:38

A story of Polish officers murdered by the NKVD in Katyn during Workd War II. A picture of women unaware of the crime, who were waiting for their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers.

An uncompromising reckoning with the lie of the communist powers, that was to order Poland to forget those who were killed. A film about invincible struggle for the memory and truth.

The behinning of WW II. After the nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, following Joseph Stalin's order, on Spetember 17, 1939, also units of the Red Army trespassed on Polish soil. Consequently, all Polish Officers found themselves in Soviet slavery.

Anna, the wife of an Uhlan Regiment captain is waiting for her man, and receives with disbelief all obvious evidence if his having been murdered by the Russians. The wife of a general, in April 1943, learns of her husband's death after the Germans discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest.

Silence and lies about the crime break the heart of Agnieszka (Magdalena Cielecka), a sister of a pilot, who shared the lot of the other Polish soldiers. The only survivor is the captain's friend Jerzy, who entered the ranks of the Polish People's Army.

What is the life of women, waiting for their beloved in the Polish state after the war going to look like, they still being dependent on Soviet Russia?

Will homeland and freedom still retain the same meaning for those who have accepted the new system?

Starring: Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Pawel Malaszynski