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Katyn (2007)

Drama | War 
Rayting:   7.1/10 15.6K votes
Country: Poland
Language: Polish | Russian
Release date: 21 September 2007

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

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alex-michalik 27 January 2008

I've seen this movie about two month ago. The information that it's one of the nominees for Oscars '08 was a huge gladness for me but not a surprise, just like for millions of people in Poland. I knew from the first place that somebody out there in Hollywood will notice the beauty of clearness and disarming honesty of Katyń. That's not the movie that you go to just in order to kill some time and relax. You have to be aware of the historical facts if you want to understand Katyń in the best way. Wajda did a great job, along with really good actors that really felt their roles. World needed the movie that tells the whole story about what happened in Katyn in 1940. Finally, it got it.

secondtake 29 December 2010

Fmovies: Katyn (2007)

A striking, gorgeous, sad sad movie.

I'm not sure I like the idea that this is a deeply poetic movie about such genocidal horrors. But it is, beyond the usual. It's downright gorgeous, and lyrical, and timeless. It's quite an extraordinary visual experience, and it moves through beautiful forested and old world urban landscapes that are wonderful to just look at.

But that's not the point at all. Or at least, the mass murder by the Soviets of Polish officers in WWII is made more horrible by placing the crimes against such beauty. It amplifies how really wrong it is. That war, and the crimes of war, are inherently against nature. And good moral sense.

The pace is what you might call elegiac. That is, it is not quite slow, but it moves as a boat down a river might, with eloquence. I'm not sure that's enough, in the long run, to make it sublime (as sublime as it intends) but is really is close to a kind of cinematic poetry.

There are many great performances here, none of them splashy. There are beauties here (women and men both) but no star power, nothing distracting.

What matters most of all is a reminder, a realignment even, about historical facts, and the cruelty of the Soviets against the Poles, even as they were fighting the Nazis. Then of course Poland was under Soviet rule for decades, so a movie like this was only possible recently. And a movie this powerful, and this disturbing, and this beautiful, is remarkable. Watch it closely

KissEnglishPasto 22 July 2016

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Katyn makes it painfully clear that the truth was a very scarce commodity throughout decades of Soviet domination. Considering Katyn was released nearly 20 years after the end of the Communist/Soviet era in Poland. It seems, to me at least, somewhat baffling that it took Polish film-makers so long to share these tragic and poignant true events with the world.

In historical retrospect, Nazi atrocities perpetrated against Poland and its people have been well circulated and repeated tirelessly over past decades. On the other hand, there has been a virtual dearth of information regarding Soviet atrocities. "WWII was triggered by the German blitzkrieg invasion of Poland in September, 1939." is what we Americans have been told ad nauseam for decades.

What is rarely ever mentioned is the simultaneous eastern invasion of Poland by Soviet forces! While Nazi aberrations such as Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto have been chronicled in numerous well-known films, this marks the first time, in my recollection at least, that Soviet war crimes have been dealt with openly and clearly in a movie. Katyn relates this true war time story through the interwoven lives of a dozen or so family members and friends. Within minutes of viewing, the story had me totally in its grip, and even though the eventual outcome is a historical fact we are all keenly aware of, the story unfolded in such a way as to never lose my interest.

9*.....ENJOY/DISFRUTELA!

Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most welcome!

BBorowy 9 December 2007

Katyn fmovies. This is not an average Oscar nominated Hollywood movie. There are few movies that are able to expose abyss of human nature, the darkest one in this case. It is not the most gruesome scenes, as one who knows the historical facts may expect to see, create emotional terror. Wajda masterfully leads the viewer deeply into reflections on how horrible humanity can become. There is little hope to change the course of the past, and yet when watching the film, one may catch himself hoping for a miracle of such a change. The journey through part of lives of those who were a part of this dark history is unforgettable.

As one can describe the included in Bethoveen's 9th "Ode to Joy" as the aspiration of humanity to reaching the best of itself, this movie shows what is the opposite alternative...

WarsawTC 19 October 2007

Wajda, whose father was one of the tens of thousands of victims of this mega war crime, has created a powerful film that should be viewed both within Poland and abroad.

To understand modern Poland, it is necessary to understand what happened to much of the country's pre-WWII intellectual makeup. Wajda constructs a film that lets film audiences comprehend if not the scale of the crime, at least its devastating effects on victims and their families.

The film is well edited. It takes a complex story and tells it in the amount of time that audiences can both sit and take in the details as well as tolerate the brutality of the event itself.

stensson 6 January 2009

Andrzej Wajda is a brave man. He made "The Man of Marble" and " The Man of Iron" a couple of years before the free trade unions started in Poland. Already in these pictures he attacked the communist system.

This is another variable of that theme. Here it is the Katyn massacre, there Polish officers were executed by the Soviets, who blamed all on the Nazis. And the Polish regime agreed upon it.

Wajda's method, in which he is better than almost anyone else, is showing the endless individual suffering behind the so called world history. Which makes this history more than statistics and analysis.

This is no exception.

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