Title:
Katyn
Author:
Wajda, Andrzej, 1926-2016.
Edition:
Widescreen edycja.
Publication Information:
Port Washington, N.Y. : Koch Lorber Films : distributed by E1 Entertainment, 2009.
©2007
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyń in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the massacre gets suppressed.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
Based on the novel "Post mortem" by Andrzej Mularczyk.
Originally produced in 2007.
Special features: Interview with director Andrejz Wajda ; "Katyn: 60 days on the set: making-of featurette, " Polish premiere: interviews and reactions ; photo gallery.
Language:
Polish
Geographic Term:
Added Corporate Author:
ISBN:
9781417201945
UPC:
741952317890
Format :
DVD
