Katyn

Katyn Review

this is a review of the blu ray.
The soviet empire was built on lies and brutality. From lenin on the country was a murder machine which only in it's last few decades less bloodthirsty. So when they took over part of poland in a deal with hitler, they were quick to round up those they wanted liquidated. In fact they got rid of the polish officers rather quickly. Other people would follow them to unknown graves or death camps in siberia in the next ten years. This movie addresses how the poor polish people had to suffer under a giant system of lies and the worst of them was katyn. This movie looks great on blu ray and metrodome needs to start issuing blu rays in north america because they have alot of war titles out on blu ray. Great movies like assembly, flame and citron, days of glory and others. All of them are foriegn language films with subtitles and this one is no different. It's a finely acted polish movie made about the massacre and it's aftermath. It's not a standard war movie though with battle scenes though. It is a solid drama based on facts with characters who are realistic and based on composites of real people. So be prepared for a drama in which a wife tries to find out what happened to her husband. And that's just one senario. The stories continue to shortly after the war when a characters still must make a stand for the truth and they will pay the ulitmate price for it. So this is not a action movie , it's a good drama about people under tyranny and on blu ray it shines best.

Katyn Overview

Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
Winner of the European Film Awards Prix d’Excellence
The critically-acclaimed film from Poland’s greatest living director, Andrzej Wajda

1940. After Germany’s invasion of Poland, Joseph Stalin ordered the liquidation of the Polish officer corps, slaughtering nearly 22,000 men in Katyn Forest. Based on this horrific, historical event, Katyn tells the affecting story of four fictional officers and their families as they struggle to uncover the truth. Based on the novel “Post Mortem” by Andrzej Mularczyk.

OVER 80 MINUTES OF BONUS FEATURES:
Interview with Andrzej Wajda
”Katyn: 60 Days on the Set” making-of featurette

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