Over at The Women's International Perspective, Vera von Kreutzbruck interviews the renowned filmmaker on his latest work. Katyn is "is the most personal film Wajda has made: he lost his father in the Katyn massacre. He also was a witness to his mother’s desperate and hopeless efforts searching for his father and her ultimate discovery of his tragic fate."
In 1940, under orders of Joseph Stalin, 22,000 Polish citizens were matched into the Katyn forest and executed.
The film made its international debut with a screening in Berlin in February; German Chancellor Angela Merckel attended.
Why did you become a member of the Solidarity movement? "That was the most beautiful moment in my life. I joined Solidarity because it was the first movement that fought for freedom in Poland; it conjoined the forces of workers and members of the intelligentsia, like writers, politicians, doctors and film directors. Before that it was either the ones or the others who were uprising. They never had united before."
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