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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 novelization? Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards.
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| Written by | Andrzej Mularczyk (novel)
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| Release date(s) | September 17, 2007 |
| Running time | 115 min. |
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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
There are now some cemeteries of Polish officers in the vicinity of the massacres, but many facts of the event remain undisclosed to this day and many graves of the Polish POWs east of the Bug River are either still unmarked or in a state of disrepair.
DIREKTOR’S STATEMENT
ANDRZEJ WAJDA'S MESSAGE
After many attempts and much thought, I am now certain that a film about Katyn cannot set a goal of discovering the whole truth about that event, since it is now a historical and political fact.
Those facts, to the viewer of today, could be a background for such events as human lots, since only they, shown on the big screen, can move the viewer in contrast to the relations of our history that has its place in the written stories of those times.
Therefore, I see my film about Katyn as a story of a family separated forever, about great illusions and the brutal truth about the Katyn crime. In a word, a film about individual suffering, which evokes images of much greater emotional content than naked historical facts. A film that shows the terrible truth that hurts, whose characters are not the murdered officers, but women who await their return every day, every hour, suffering inhuman uncertainty. Loyal and unshaken, convinced that it was only enough to open the door to see the long awaited man at it as the tragedy of Katyn concerns those who live and lived then.
After years away from the Katyń tragedy, from the German exhumation in 1943 and next the Polish research work in the 90's, and even despite partial disclosing of the archives, we still know too little what the Katyń crime looked like in April and May 1940, committed on the strength of the decision by Stalin and his comrades of the Politburo of the Communist Party in Moscow on March 5, 1940.
No wonder that for years we were convinced that our father could be living, as the last name Wajda featured on the Katyń list, but with the first name of Karol.
Mother, almost till the end of her days, believed her husband would return, my father Jakub Wajda, a combatant of the Great War, the Polish-Soviet war, the Silesian Uprising, and the September campaign of 1939, the recipient of the Silver Cross and the Order of Virtuti Militari awarded posthumously.
I would not like the Katyn film, however, to be my personal search for the truth and a vigil light lit on the grave of Captain Jakub Wajda. Let it spin a tale about the suffering and drama of many Katyń families. About the Katyn lie that triumphs over the grave of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, which forced into silence about it for half a century the then allies, the Western ones of the
I know that the young generation, fully aware and with enthusiasm, is moving away from our past. Busy with mundane matters, they forget names and dates, which, no matter if we want it or not, create us as a nation with its fears and misgivings surfacing at every political opportunity.
Not long ago, a high school student on a TV program, asked what he associated September 17 with, answered: with a church holiday. Maybe thanks to our film, the young man asked about Katyń will be able to say more than that it is the name of a small town not far away from
The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Polish, French, German, and British film companies.
In addition to winning the Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and being nominated for Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Film Editing, the film won Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival[1] and BAFTA Award for Best Film in 2003. It was also awarded seven French Césars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Brody (who became the only American actor to win one).
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| Produced by | Roman Polanski
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| Written by | Ronald Harwood
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| Release date(s) | 24 May 2002 (Cannes)
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| Running time | 150 minutes |
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Cast
- Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman
- Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
- Emilia Fox as Dorota
- Michał Żebrowski as Jurek
- Ed Stoppard as Henryk
- Maureen Lipman as Mother Szpilman
- Frank Finlay as Father Szpilman
- Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina
- Julia Rayner as
- David Singer as Hansell
- Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa
- Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek
- Valentine Pelka as Dorota's husband
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