Summary:
On 17 September 1939, a group of Polish officers and soldiers are imprisoned by the Soviet Army on the border of Poland. Anna and her daughter Nika travel from Krakow to meet her husband and officer Andrzej and they try to convince him to leave the soldiers and escape back home. However, Andrzej refuses to leave the troop and is deported to USSR. Later the Soviet tells that the Polish officers had been massacred by the Germans in the Katyn Forest with a shot on the back of the neck. However Anna retrieves Andrzej's diary and discloses that the soldiers had been actually murdered by the Soviet Army.
| Runtime: | 121 min |
|---|---|
| Production: | Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej |
| Genres: | Drama, History, War |
| Country: | Poland |
| Languages: | German, Russian, Polish |
| Home Release Date: | Aug 11, 2009 |
| Director | Credit |
|---|---|
| Andrzej Wajda | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Andrzej Mularczyk | Writer |
| Andrzej Wajda | Writer |
| Przemyslaw Nowakowski | Writer |
| Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Writer |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Agnieszka Glinska | Irena |
| Agnieszka Kawiorska | Ewa |
| Andrzej Chyra | Lt. Jerzy |
| Antoni Pawlicki | Tadeusz |
| Artur Zmijewski | Andrzej |
| Danuta Stenka | |
| Jan Englert | General |
| Joachim Paul Assböck | |
| Magdalena Cielecka | Agnieszka |
| Maja Komorowska | Andrzej's Mother |
| Maja Ostaszewska | Anna |
| Pawel Malaszynski | Lt. Piotr |
| Sergey Garmash | Maj. Popov |
| Waldemar Barwinski | Polish Officer |
| Wladyslaw Kowalski | Professor Jan |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Dariusz Wieromiejczyk | Co-Producer |
| Dominique Lesage | Co-Producer |
| Katarzyna Fukacz-Cebula | Executive Producer |
| Michal Kwiecinski | Producer |
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