Dir. Andrzej Wajda, Poland 2007

Acclaimed Polish director and winner of a lifetime achievement Academy Award, Andrzej Wajda has created an epic and personal tale about one of WWII’s notorious cover-ups. In the village of Katyn in May 1940, the Soviet army brutally murdered 15,000 Polish POWs, to crush Polish hopes for future independence. For 50 years afterward, the USSR denied responsibility, cynically blaming the Nazis. Wajda, whose father was one of those killed, focuses less on the crimes of war than on the people left in its wake. Their interwoven stories draw us into a world where the struggle for memory and truth takes place amid a chilling conspiracy of silence. –Deborah Kaufman, Mill Valley Film Festival

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