Synopsis
KATYN is the story of Polish officers murdered by the NKVD in Katyn during WWII and their families who, unaware of the crime, were still waiting for their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers to return.KATYN is also a film about an invincible struggle for memory and truth and an uncompromising reckoning with the lie of the communist powers created to force Poland to forget those who had been killed.
At the beginning of WWII on September 17, 1939 after Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, the Red Army also trespassed on Polish soil on Joseph Stalin's orders. Consequently, all Polish officers found themselves in Soviet internment.
Anna, the wife of an Uhlan regiment captain, is waiting for her man, and although she is in denial, she receives undisputable evidence of his murder by the Russians. The wife of a General learns of her husband's death after the Germans discover mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. Agnieszka, the sister of a pilot who has met the same fate as the other Polish soldiers, is broken-hearted by the silence and lies told about the crime. The captain's friend Jerzy, who has entered the ranks of the Polish People's Army, is the only survivor.
What will become of these women, waiting for their beloved in the Polish state and who after the war are dependent on Soviet Russia? Will home/and and freedom retain the same meaning for those who have accepted the new system?
