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2009-2010 International Film Series
Andrzej Wajda's KATYN (Poland, 2007)
Acclaimed as the crowning achievement of Wajda's sixty-year career, Katyn is the name of the forest where the Soviets secretly massacred more than twenty thousand Poles in 1940, then steadfastly denied their involvement for nearly fifty years. Wajda interweaves a handful of stories that foreground not only individual suffering but also extraordinary acts of courage. In the closing scene he also shows us--as he must--a few of the executions. Appropriately, they are accompanied by a subdued requiem chant; then the screen fades to black. In Polish with English subtitles. 121 mins.
