Film · TMDB
6.7On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Released: 2007-09-21122 minDir: Andrzej WajdaDrama, History, War
Cast
- Andrzej Chyra as Jerzy
- Maja Ostaszewska as Anna
- Artur Żmijewski as Andrzej
- Danuta Stenka as General's Wife
- Jan Englert as General
- Magdalena Cielecka as Agnieszka
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7/10
17,646 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
81/100
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 14 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Andrzej Wajda
- Written by
- Andrzej Wajda Władysław Pasikowski Przemysław Nowakowski
- Based on
- Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn , by Andrzej Mularczyk
- Produced by
- Michał Kwieciński
- Starring
- Andrzej Chyra Maja Ostaszewska Artur Żmijewski Danuta Stenka Jan Englert Magdalena Cielecka Agnieszka Glińska Paweł Małaszyński Maja Komorowska Władysław Kowalski Sergei Garmash
- Cinematography
- Paweł Edelman
- Edited by
- Milenia Fiedler , Rafał Listopad
- Music by
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Production company
- Akson Studio
- Distributed by
- ITI Cinema [ pl ]
- Release date
- September 17, 2007 ( 2007-09-17 )
- Running time
- 115 minutes
Key dates
- Published
- 17 September 2009
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 21st European Film Awards
- Genre
- historical film
- Country of origin
- Poland
- Original language
- Russian
- Main subject
- Katyn massacre
- Director
- Andrzej Wajda
- Screenwriter
- Władysław Pasikowski
- Cast member
- Jacek Braciak
- Composer
- Krzysztof Penderecki
Article
Katyń ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a 2007 Polish historical drama 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.
Wajda’s Katyń is the first screen portrayal of the long-suppressed and “highly controversial historical event.”
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Categories
2000s Polish-language films2007 drama films2007 films2007 German-language films2007 multilingual films2007 Polish films2007 Russian-language filmsAkson Studio filmsCulture articles needing translation from Polish WikipediaFilms about massacresFilms about Soviet repressionFilms about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era