Katyn (2007)
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A scene from Andrzej Wajda’s “Katyn,” which deals with the massacre of Poles in 1940.
February 18, 2009
Bearing Witness to Poland’s Pain
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 18, 2009
The first scene in “Katyn,” Andrzej Wajda’s solemn and searing new film, takes place on a bridge somewhere in Poland in mid-September 1939. The bridge is aswarm with people fleeing in opposite directions. Panicked families trying to escape the Germans, who invaded on the first of the month, collide with equally terrified compatriots coming from the eastern part of the country, scene of a recent Soviet intervention. More
