Cancel your plans for Thursday night, if you live anywhere near Wimbledon that is, because Wimbledon Film Club are showing the award-winning and Oscar-nominated movie “Katyn” to commemorate Holocaust month at the brand-spanking new HMV Curzon cinema in Wimbledon.
Don’t miss this Thursday screening of Wajda’s gripping account of the truth of what happened in the Katyn Forest in 1940 when 15,000 to 22,000 Polish officers were rounded up and shot by the Russian KGB. One of the men murdered that day was Jakub Wajda, Andrzej Wajda’s father. When the Soviets took control of Poland history was officially rewritten blaming the Nazis for the massacre. Wajda explores his characters’ differing reactions to loss and subjugation: non-compliance with the authorities, bearing witness to truth, shame, a will to survive. This a moving and memorable film.
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