Katyn [DVD] / Akson Studio, Telewizja Polska S.A., Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. ; przy współfinansowaniu Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej przedstawiają film ; scenariusz, Andrzej Wajda, Władysław Pasikowski, Przemysław Nowakowski ; producent, Michał Kwieciński ; reźyseria, Andrzej Wajda.
Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Jan Englert, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Glinska, Maja Komorowska, Sergey Garmash. Based on the novel "Post mortem" by Andrzej Mularczyk. Originally produced in 2007. Widescreen format (16x9, aspect ratio 2.35:1). Special features: Interview with director Andrejz Wajda ; "Katyn: 60 days on the set: making-of featurette," Polish premiere: interviews and reactions ; photo gallery.
Summary:
Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyń in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the massacre gets suppressed.
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