Katyn (Wajda, 2007): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.30pm
This presentation is part of the Andrzej Wajda season at BFI Southbank and also screens on March 10th (with an introduction by journalist Carmen Gray). You can find the full details here.Chicago Reader review:
Andrzej Wajda has spent much of his long career dramatizing major events
in Polish history, and this poignant feature depicts the circumstances
surrounding the Soviet Union’s massacre of thousands of Polish officers
in the spring of 1940. The film opens with a striking scene that
underlines the plight of Wajda’s people in World War II: as hundreds of
Poles cross a bridge to flee invading German troops, others run toward
them to escape the advancing Russian army. The rest of this feature
follows a handful of families over five years as they suffer through the
Nazi occupation and the Soviet occupation that succeeded it.
Joshua Katzman
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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