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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Krzysztof Kolberger, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Artur Żmijewski, Sergei Garmash, Maja Komorowska, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Englert, Maja Ostaszewska, Alicja Dabrowska, Paweł Małaszyński, Stanisława Celińska ...MORE

Cast: Krzysztof Kolberger, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Artur Żmijewski, Sergei Garmash, Maja Komorowska, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Englert, Maja Ostaszewska, Alicja Dabrowska, Paweł Małaszyński, Stanisława Celińska, Andrzej Chyra, Joachim Paul Assböck ...LESS

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Katyń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards. The Katyn massacre, also known as the zbrodnia katyńska ('Katyń crime'), was a mass execution of Polish POW officers and citizens ordered by the Soviet authorities in 1940. The most widely accepted estimate of the number of dead is about 22,000. The victims were murdered in the Katyn... MORE

Katyń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards. The Katyn massacre, also known as the zbrodnia katyńska ('Katyń crime'), was a mass execution of Polish POW officers and citizens ordered by the Soviet authorities in 1940. The most widely accepted estimate of the number of dead is about 22,000. The victims were murdered in the Katyn forest, Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkiv prisons, and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the Soviet 1939 invasion of Poland, the rest being Poles arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, spies, saboteurs, landowners, factory owners, lawyers, priests, and officials." During the German occupation of Poland, the Germans used the massacre for propaganda purposes against the Soviets. However, after the war, when Poland fell under Soviet influence, the truth about the event was suppressed by the Soviet authorities, who maintained an official line throughout the Eastern LESS