NP Katyn

[Johnny Marr]

RIP Andrzej Wajda

His early trilogy (Kanal/A Generation/Ashes & Diamonds), the Man of
Marble/Iron films and his much underrated adaptation of Danton (one of
Kubrick's favourite films) - all brilliant

On Thursday, May 21, 2009, Rob Jackson <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> On 22/05/2009, at 8:22 AM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
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>> http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,625824,00.html
>> (this article has really pissed off the Poles by the way)
>>
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> Katyn   Rated MA
> Review by Margaret Pomeranz
>
> It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a film from the great Polish
> director Andrzej Wajda in cinemas here.
>
> It’s moving in more ways than one to welcome him back with KATYN about the
> 1940 World War 2 slaughter by Russian security forces of over tens of
> thousands Polish officers and intellectuals.
>
> The story is mainly told through the families left behind as fathers, sons
> and husbands are transported east to prison camps.
>
> In 1943 the Germans discovered the mass graves and attributed the atrocity
> to the Russians. However in post-war Poland history was re-written by the
> Soviets, the Germans were blamed and Katyn became a forbidden topic.
>
> This is wonderful classic filmmaking from a master. Wajda had reason to be
> emotional about this film because his own father, a Captain in the Polish
> cavalry, was one of the victims of Katyn.
>
> This film reveals a history that was distorted for political purposes,
> only acknowledged in 1990 by the Russians. Living with that revelation of
> the massacre in 1943 and later with the suppression of the truth was an
> anguish for many Poles, often a fatal anguish. ...
>
> ... And you look at those wonderful filmmakers that made films behind the
> Iron Curtain for all those years and made political statements within their
> films very subtly and very cleverly. ...
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2549845.htm
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn
>
> best wishes
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