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Katyn by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2007, Competition
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Andrzej Wajda
Katyn by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2007, Competition
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Magdalena Cielecka
Katyn by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2007, Competition
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Maja Ostaszewska
Katyn by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2007, Competition
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Agnieszka Kawiorska
Katyn by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2007, Competition
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Antoni Pawlicki, Agnieszka Kawiorska
Katyn by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2007, Competition
The film now jumps forward in documentary style to 18 January, 1945 when Cracow is liberated by the Red Army. In propagandist newsreels the Soviets charge the Germans with the massacre at Katyń. (…) In this, the second part of his late work, Wajda explores the narrow borderline between collaboration and resistance in the People’s Republic of Poland. (…) The film ends with a flashback. It is the spring of 1940; the Polish officer internees are taken in railway wagons to Smolensk and driven into the forest. In a sequence that lasts over twenty minutes, Wajda shows how, one by one, each officer was murdered by a shot in the head from behind. Dozens of executions. The same procedure, over and over again. And then a bulldozer arrives and covers up the mass grave …” (Paul Flückiger, Die Welt, 5.10.2007)
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Andrzej Wajda
Director Andrzej Wajda presented his new film Katyn out of competition.
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Dieter Kosslick, Angela Merkel, Andrzej Wajda
German Chancellor Angela Merkel payed a visit to the premiere of Katyn by Andrzej Wajda (r.) in the Berlinale Palast.
Katyn · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 15, 2008
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Andrzej Chyra
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Magdalena Cielecka
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Danuta Stenka
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Andrzej Wajda
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Maja Ostaszewska
Katyn · Competition · Feb 15, 2008
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Maciej Karpinski (Polish Film Institute), Slawomir Józwik (TVP Co-Production), Andrzej Chyra (/Actor), Magdalena Cielecka (Actress), Andrzej Wajda (Director), Maja Ostaszewska (Actress), Danuta Stenka (/Actress), Michal Kwiecinski (Producer)
Katyn
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 15, 2008
Maciej Karpinski (Polish Film Institute), Slawomir Józwik (TVP Co-Production), Andrzej Chyra (/Actor), Magdalena Cielecka (Actress), Andrzej Wajda (Director), Maja Ostaszewska (Actress), Danuta Stenka (/Actress), Michal Kwiecinski (Producer)
Katyn
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 15, 2008