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Article: 70 years later, unearthing the killing fields of Poland
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- July 24, 2009
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'Katyn' Rating 3 1/2 out of 4
Anna Maja Ostaszewska
Andrzej Artur Zmijewski
Jerzy Andrzej Chyra
General Jan Englert
Roza Danuta Stenka
Koch Lorber Films presents a film directed by Andrzej Wajda. Written by Wajda, Wladyslaw Pasikowski and Przemyslaw Nowakowski. In Polish with English subtitles. Running time: 121 minutes. No MPAA rating. Opening today at the Music Box.
In 1940, some 15,000 officers of the Polish army were rounded up, transported in sealed buses to a forest named Katyn, shot in the back of their heads by the Russian KGB and buried in mass graves. That is the simple truth. When the nation was occupied by both the Nazis and Soviets, their deaths were masked in silence. ...