Katyn

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Director: Andrzej Wajda

2007, (Poland), 2hrs 2mins

Language: Polish with English subtitles

Presented by: Cinestudio in partnership with Central Connecticut State University’s Polish Studies Program

Post-Film Discussion: Dr. Anita Zawisza, University of Warsaw

 

An examination of the Soviet massacre of thousands of Polish military officers and members of the intelligentsia in the Katyn Forest in 1940, Katyn follows the families left behind as they struggle with grief, uncertainty, and decades of official deception. A deeply personal film for Wajda, whose own father was among those murdered in the massacre, the film confronts one of Poland’s greatest national tragedies and the long history of silence and historical distortion that followed. Both a powerful act of remembrance and a moving testament to moral witness, Katyn stands among the director’s most personal and emotionally resonant works.