Katyn
Turkish title: Katyn Katliamı
“The untold story of the crime Stalin could not hide”
2007 · 2 h 1 min
Directed by 
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej WajdaCast
Maja Ostaszewska Artur Żmijewski 
Andrzej Chyra
Credits
Written by: Andrzej Mularczyk
Plot
The families of Polish officers wait for news after the 1940 Katyn massacre by Soviet forces.
Sinekatalog’s take
Andrzej Wajda's deeply personal film about the Katyn massacre, which killed his own father, is sober and devastating. Its final sequence is harrowing, in a work of grief and national memory.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (18,420 votes)
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