Katyn

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Katyn

2007,

2h 1m,

Drama

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92%

64 Reviews

Tomatometer

75%

5,000+ Ratings

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92%

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64 Reviews

75%

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5,000+ Ratings

In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, Soviet soldiers conduct a mass execution of captured Polish officers. With Hitler's forces rapidly advancing into Eastern Europe, a surviving Polish officer, Lt. Jerzy (Andrzej Chyra), at great risk to his own life, chooses to stay behind with his wife, Anna (Maja Ostaszewska). As the Germans round up Lt. Jerzy and other officers, propaganda efforts cover up the truth about the Soviet soldiers' shocking brutality.

Critics Consensus

Masterfully crafted by an experienced directorial hand, Katyn is a powerful, personal depiction of wartime tragedy.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jul 23, 2009

3.5/4

[Director] Wajda has brought some small measure of rest to their names, to Poland, and to history.

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James Adams

Globe and Mail

Jul 17, 2009

4/4

Katyn is remarkably concise and (if one may say this about a cinematic commemoration of mass murder) elegant.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Jun 19, 2009

4/4

Wajda's intensity and passion, as well as his intelligence and craft, are unmistakable from the very first sequence. Virtually from the first shot.

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David Harris

Spectrum Culture

Oct 9, 2019

2.5/5

Unfortunately, the history behind the film is more engaging than the movie itself.

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Ellie Lucas

From the Front Row

Jul 7, 2019

2.5/4

Far too weak structurally to have the emotional impact it should.

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Anne Applebaum

The New York Review of Books

Aug 23, 2018

Katyn is deliberately intended to inspire patriotism, in the most positive sense of the word.

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Harry G

Feb 19, 2017

Very hard movie about the horrendous crime of Soviet regime against Polish people. But I found the storyline a bit hard to follow with its uneven transition from one scene to another with too many different characters.

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Andrzej Wajda

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Joachim Paul Assböck

Sturmbannfuehrer Mueller

Waldemar Barwiński

Polish Officer

Stanisława Celińska

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Andrzej Chyra

Jerzy

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Synopsis

In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, Soviet soldiers conduct a mass execution of captured Polish officers. With Hitler's forces rapidly advancing into Eastern Europe, a surviving Polish officer, Lt. Jerzy (Andrzej Chyra), at great risk to his own life, chooses to stay behind with his wife, Anna (Maja Ostaszewska). As the Germans round up Lt. Jerzy and other officers, propaganda efforts cover up the truth about the Soviet soldiers' shocking brutality.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Producer: Michał Kwieciński
Screenwriter: Andrzej Mularczyk, Andrzej Wajda
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $114.8K
Runtime: 2h 1m

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