uk cinemas listings

UK Cinemas

Cinema listings with film information and movie reviews

Entertainments Search:

  1. UK Information
  2. UK Cinemas
  3. Film list
  4. Katyn

Katyn (15)

Recreation of a controversial chapter in Poland's recent history, dramatising the murder of Polish army officers during the Second World War at the hands of the Russian secret police in the titular forest and the subsequent cover-up, which placed the blame on invading German forces. The storyline weaves together several different characters including captain's wife Anna, who remains in denial about her husband's fate, and Polish People's Army lieutenant Jerzy, who escapes the massacre then struggles to adjust to life under The Red Army.

Running Time: 121 minutes
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Author: Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej Chyra