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Katyn , an album preceeds premiere of film by Andrzej Wajda (see large vidcap gallery)
Polish Radio ^ | 24.08.2007

Posted on 08/24/2007 1:40:54 PM PDT by lizol

Katyn , an album preceeds premiere of film by Andrzej Wajda

24.08.2007

A book entitled Katyn is to be released on September 3rd , that is two weeks before the premiere of Andrzej Wajda’s film under the same title. The album contains photographs, archive documents and reproductions of historical maps and will be an introduction to the film. The album will also contain stills from the set of Wajda’s film, and personal commentaries of the Oscar winning Polish director. Wajda, whose father was killed in Katyn , says the film will be a story of the Katyn lie, a story of how for years the fact of the murder committed on Poles by Stalin’s NKVD secret services was denied and the blame put on Nazis. Katyn is the first feature film about the crime of 1940 on 22 thousand Polish civilians and officers by the NKVD.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: katyn; movie; poland; wajda
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1 posted on 08/24/2007 1:40:57 PM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol
Movie trailers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwp5f6uuHus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbT4hbzFguA
2 posted on 08/24/2007 1:44:25 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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3 posted on 08/24/2007 1:46:20 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol
Wajda begins filming Katyn movie (see pictures)

Wajda on Katyn

Katyn: the post mortem
4 posted on 08/24/2007 1:49:45 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol

Is there any doubt in anybody’s mind that American leftists would do this to conservatives if they had the chance?


5 posted on 08/24/2007 2:00:18 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: vetsvette

Considering that Alec Baldwin wanted to “stone Henry Hyde”, no.


6 posted on 08/24/2007 2:01:25 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: lizol

Any idea what the outside-of-Poland distribution plans are?


7 posted on 08/24/2007 2:03:09 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

In Poland it will be in cinemas since September 17th.

And I’m absolutely positive, that there will be some distribution in America and Europe, but I don’t know the details so far.


8 posted on 08/24/2007 2:11:23 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: DuncanWaring
As far as I know - for example - at first the movie title was supposed to be “Post mortem. Opowiesc katynska” (which means in English “Post mortem. The Katyn story”.

But finally they decided to change the title simply to “Katyn” - because of the plans relating to distribution outside-of-Poland

9 posted on 08/24/2007 2:16:22 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol

a little help on the story plot please...


10 posted on 08/24/2007 2:22:48 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

The Nazis and the Soviets essentially partitioned Poland in 1939. The Soviets collected up all the officers of the Polish army in their sector (several thousand), imprisoned them for a short time at Katyn, then shot them in the head and stuffed them in mass graves.


11 posted on 08/24/2007 2:25:47 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: lizol
Prediction: it'll be suppressed in the West (shown but not promoted too much.) No Schindler's List this.
12 posted on 08/24/2007 2:30:06 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: lizol

they all look

over-costumed.


13 posted on 08/24/2007 2:36:36 PM PDT by ken21
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To: longtermmemmory
Katyn massacre
14 posted on 08/24/2007 3:28:14 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: Revolting cat!

When Wajda was honored at the Oscars back in 1992, he was introduced by....Jane Fonda.

Obviously Wajda wasn’t aware of Hanoi Jane’s previous activities.


15 posted on 08/24/2007 3:29:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: lizol

Thanks for this information!

Passing it on to my relatives...


16 posted on 08/24/2007 5:16:22 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not..)
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To: lizol

Very interesting! It would be good to see more movies about how badly some countries were impacted by Stalin, but like others have mentioned, Communist-loving Hollywood would never allow it.


17 posted on 08/24/2007 6:08:08 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: FreedomPoster

They had the Poles in several camps. They took the Poles to at least three separate execution sites [Katyn was one].

The Poles executed at Katyn were taken there by train, and then truxcked [over a period of several weeks] to an NKVD “villa” [near the Hill of Goats] where they were shot, one at a time in the basement by NKVD executioners [one man did a large number of the killings by himself], and then taken to pre-dug graves. Some of the POles may have been killed at the grave sites.

The Germans, who occupied the area in 1941, found the graves in 1943, and announced their findings to the world. They allowed Poles, as well as neutrals on the site, and had a commission of netrals’ experts examine the bodies, etc. The Germans succeeded in rupturing relations between the Free Poles and the USSR, but Britain, and the US backed Soviet claims that it was a German operation [Interestingly, Katyn was not charged as a war crime against the SS at Nuremberg]

Gorbachev finally admitted that the NKVD had done the murders, sometime arond 1991.


18 posted on 08/24/2007 9:35:28 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: longtermmemmory; PzLdr

Additional detail by PzLdr above.


19 posted on 08/25/2007 1:54:29 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: lizol

Considering the huge population of ethnic Poles here it would seem a slam dunk for sales even if it went directly to DVD.


20 posted on 08/25/2007 7:00:03 AM PDT by Camel Joe (liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
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