Friday, May 1, 2020
Katyn (2007)
Synopsis
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades
Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow to search for her
husband, the Polish captain Andrzej. She finds him together with other
officers captured by the Red Army, but some minutes later he is pushed
into a train, which will take all the Polish officers to a prison camp
in Kozelsk in Russia. Anna and her daughter Nika is now stuck in the
Soviet occupied zone, unable to go back to Krakow in the German zone,
not until a brave Russian captain helps them to flee. 3 April 1940
Andrzej is transported from the prison camp in Kozelsk to the Katyn
Forest, where thousands of Polish officers are killed. In 1943 the
Germans capture this area and find the mass graves. 13 April 1943 they
start announcing the names of the identified corpses through
loudspeakers in Krakow. Anna is happy that Andrzej is not in any of the
Katyn lists, which gives her some hope. 18 January 1945 the Red Army
liberates Krakow from the Nazis. The Russians ...
