Katyń is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards. The Katyn massacre, also known as the zbrodnia katyńska , was a mass execution of Polish POW officers and citizens ordered by the Soviet authorities in 1940. The most widely accepted estimate of the number of dead is about 22,000. The victims were murdered in the Katyn forest, Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and... elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the Soviet 1939 invasion of Poland, the rest being Poles arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, spies, saboteurs, landowners, factory owners, lawyers, priests, and officials." During the German occupation of Poland, the Germans used the massacre for propaganda purposes against the Soviets.
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| Release date: | 2007 |
| Directed by: | Andrzej Wajda |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Katarzyna Fukacz-Cebula, Michal Kwiecinski |
| Editor: | Milenia Fiedler, Rafal Listopad |
| Music by: | Krzysztof Penderecki |
| Cinematography: | Paweł Edelman |
| Screenplay by: | Andrzej Wajda, Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Władysław Pasikowski |