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2009

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Katyn [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Andrzej Wajda. Akson Studio, Telewizja Polska S.A., Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. ; przy wspołfinansowaniu Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej przedstawiają film ; scenariusz, Andrej Wajda, Władysław Pasikowski, Przemysław Nowakowski ; producent, Michał Kwieciński ; reŻyseria, Andrejz Wajda.

Publisher, Date:	Port Washington, N.Y. : Koch Lorber Films ; distributed by E1 Entertainment, 2009.
Description:	1 videodisc (DVD) (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Credits:	Editors, Milena Fiedler, Rafał Listopad ; music, Krzyzstof Penderecki ; cinematography, Paweł Edelman.
Performers:	Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Jan Englert, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Glinska, Maja Komorowska, Sergey Garmash.
System Details:	DVD, [widescreen] (16x9, 2.35:1), Dolby digita. 5.1 surround sound.

Summary:	Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyń in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the massacre gets suppressed.
Notes:	Based on the novel "Post mortem" by Andrzej Mularczyk. Originally produced in 2007. Special features: Interview with director Andrejz Wajda ; "Katyn: 60 days on the set: making-of featurette," Polish premiere: interviews and reactions ; photo gallery. Editors, Milena Fiedler, Rafał Listopad ; music, Krzyzstof Penderecki ; cinematography, Paweł Edelman. Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Jan Englert, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Glinska, Maja Komorowska, Sergey Garmash. DVD, [widescreen] (16x9, 2.35:1), Dolby digita. 5.1 surround sound. Polish dialogue; English subtitles.

Subjects:	Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940 -- Drama. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Drama. Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Drama. World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Poland -- Drama. Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Drama. DVDs.
Genre:	War films.
Other Author:	Wajda, Andrzej, 1926- Mularczyk, Andrzej, 1930- Post mortem.

ISBN:	1417201940 9781417201945
UPC:	741952317890
Publisher or Distributor Number:	KLF-DV-3178
Control Number:	738083

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