Katyn (2007)
Poland/ 118 min/ Polish Russian German

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Editing by:Milenia Fiedler,Rafał Listopad
Music by: Krzysztof Penderecki
Cinematography: Paweł Edelman
Written by: Andrzej Mularczyk (novel),Andrzej Wajda,Przemysław Nowakowski Cast : Artur Zmijewski ,Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej , Danuta Stenka , Jan Englert , Magdalena Cielecka , Agnieszka Glinska ,Paweł Małaszyński
Katyń is a 2007 Polish film about the 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.
Filming began on October 3, 2006, and ended on January 9, 2007. The film premiered on September 17, 2007, the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. The movie is regarded by some as the most important and most awaited of Wajda's projects
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 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."
For several decades the truth about the event was suppressed by the Soviet authorities, who maintained an official line throughout the Eastern Bloc that the massacre was committed by the Nazis. With the fall of communism in Poland in 1989 the truth of Katyn saw the public light of day, with the first non-communist Polish government immediately acknowledging that the crime was committed by the Soviets. In 1990, the USSR authorities admitted for the first time that the crime was committed by the Soviet NKVD. Two years later Boris Yeltsin officially declared that it had happened by the order of Joseph Stalin himself
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.
The director's father died in this massacre. Andrzej Wajda was only 13 years old. His father's remains were never found.