Kinomania 40: Katyń

A film by Andrzej Wajda about the mothers, wives and daughters of the Polish officers and intellectuals executed by the NKVD in 1940 on Stalin's orders. It includes excerpts from German newsreels presenting the Katyń massacre as a Soviet crime and from Soviet newsreels presenting it as a German one. Screened in the 40th Kinomania programme; running time: 117 minutes.