Katyn (2007) on Netflix
In September 1939 the Red Army enters eastern Poland and takes cavalry captain Andrzej prisoner. His wife Anna and their daughter Weronika reach him before a train carries the officers away.
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When the Soviet Union invades eastern Poland in September 1939, the Red Army holds the captured Polish officers and lets the enlisted men go home. Cavalry captain Andrzej keeps a detailed diary and refuses to escape, honoring his oath to the Polish military. Anna and their daughter Weronika, called Nika, reach him shortly before he is sent to the Soviet Union. A sympathetic Red Army officer helps the pair return to Kraków, where the German occupiers close the Jagiellonian University and deport its professors, among them Andrzej's father. In the camp Andrzej keeps writing, setting down the names of officers removed and the dates.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Katyn (2007)
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- Andrzej Wajda's Katyń was the first screen portrayal of the Katyn massacre, a long-suppressed and highly controversial historical event.
- In April 2009 China banned Katyń from distribution, with authorities saying its ideology did not align with their official point of view; imported copies were still widely available.
- Katyń was placed on a list of films barred from official distribution in Russia in 2015, and when the Memorial Society planned a screening in St. Petersburg, the local prosecutor's office intervened at the behest of the Russian Ministry of Culture.
- Wajda said the distribution of Katyń abroad, even on DVD and Blu-ray, was deliberately blocked by the management of Polish Television, which was dominated by politicians from Law and Justice, the League of Polish Families and Self-Defence who were hostile toward him.
- Wajda drew on the diary of Major Adam Solski, a murdered officer, which reached the officer's family only in 1989 thanks to Zbigniew Brzezinski; excerpts were quoted directly in the screenplay.
