KATYN (BLU-RAY DISC) IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Controversial Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda directs this bleak portrayal of the massacre of Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals carried out by Soviet troops in Katyn forest at the outset of World War Two. Artur Zmijewski stars as Andrzej, a young Polish army captain who is taken prisoner by the Soviet Army. At the prisoner of war camp where he is incarcerated, he carefully records in his diary the details of the brutal and inhuman events that take place around him, which culminate in the massacre of over 15,000 men over a three-day period. Meanwhile, his wife Anna (Maja Ostaszewska) and daughter Nika (Wiktoria Gasiewska) await news of him at home in war-torn Poland. Features Summary Controversial Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda directs this bleak portrayal of the massacre of Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals carried out by Soviet troops in Katyn forest at the outset of World War Two... Studio Artificial Eye Format Blu-ray disc Release date 20100322 Contributors Artur Zmijewski (Actor), Maja Ostaszewska (Actor), Andrzej Chyra (Actor), Danuta Stenka (Actor), Jan Englert (Actor), Magdalena Cielecka (Actor), Agnieszka Glinska (Actor), Pawel Malaszynski (Actor), Maja Komorowska (Actor), Wladyslaw Kowalski (Actor), Oleg Drach (Actor), Michal Kwiecinski, Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Penderecki, Andrzej Wajda (Director)