Katyn DVD

Directed by multi-award winning veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda, Katyn investigates the murder of thousands of Polish offi cers by the Soviet Secret Police during World War II. Among those killed was Wajda’s own father.

The disappearance of over 15 000 offi cers in 1940 was a mystery at fi rst and news of the tragedy was not revealed until the spring of 1943, after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union uncovered the mass graves in Russia’s Katyn Forest. During the USSR’s post-war occupation of Poland, Soviet propagandists blamed the deaths on the Nazis and set out to punish anyone speaking the truth. After fi fty years of cold war secrecy, the Kremlin offi cially confessed in 1990 that Stalin and the KGB were responsible for the crime.

Katyn uses stories from authentic diaries and letters to tell the fate of four offi cers and their families, and one woman’s ourageous determination to uncover the truth.