KATYN [Andrzej Wajda]

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Genre: Art House

Country: Poland

Year: 2007

Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre of captured Polish army officers in the Katýn Forest.

A unique blend of conventional narrative and documentary-style filmmaking, Katýn opens in the spring of 1940, just as the Soviet Secret police execute a group of Polish officers. On September 1, 1939, Germen forces had descended upon Poland, paving the way for the Red Army to occupy east Poland as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact. As the Red Army assumed control of east Poland, all officers in the Polish army were placed in Soviet custody. Determined to remain loyal to the army despite the growing danger, Polish officer Andrei refuses to flee with his wife Anna. It isn't long before invading forces begin arresting professors in Cracow, and as the detainees languish in prison camps their families start to fear that they'll never see their loved ones again. Flash forward to April of 1943, and the Germans announce the discovery of mass graves. While Anna is relieved not to hear her husband's name on the list of bodies discovered, countless others are left to grieve their losses with no explanation or consolation. January 18, 1945: Cracow is liberated by the Red Army, and propagandist newsreels from the Soviet Union blame German forces for the massacre at Katýn.

It is at the point that the fine line between collaboration and resistance within the People's Republic of Poland becomes exceptionally blurred. As the details surrounding the massacre gradually begin to emerge, Wajda reveals precisely how this horrifying massacre unfolded by flashing back to the spring of 1940 for an extended sequence in which Polish officer internees are transported by railroad to Smolensk and methodically dispatched before being casually buried in a mass grave.

DVD FEATURES

Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen Version

Polish 5.1 and Polish 2.0 Audio Options

Optional English and Polish subtitles

Interviews (Polish audio only)

Making of (Polish audio only)

Trailer

Photo Gallery

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A SUBTITLING ISSUE WITH THIS DVD. THE ONLY WAY TO WATCH THE DVD WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IS TO SET THE VIDEO OUTPUT ON YOUR DVD PLAYER TO 16X9. THIS OF COURSE WILL WORK FINE WITH WIDESCREEN TVS, BUT WILL RESULT IN THE MOVIE BEING SHOWN 'FULLSCREEN' ON STANDARD TVS.

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KATYN [Andrzej Wajda]

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KATYN [Andrzej Wajda][1372]Stock Status: Out of Stock

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KATYN [Andrzej Wajda]

[1372]

Stock Status: Out of Stock