2 real historical locations · Poland, Russia
Andrzej Wajda's deeply personal film about the 1940 Katyn Forest massacre, in which the Soviet NKVD executed over 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals. The son of one victim, Wajda waited forty years to make this monument to a crime the Soviets denied until 1990.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland, Russia.
Andrzej Wajda's film depicts the Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest — and the agonising wait of their families who were told for d...
In April-May 1940, the NKVD executed approximately 22,000 Polish prisoners of war and intellectuals at Katyn and other sites. The Soviets blamed Germany until 1990, when Gorbachev officially acknowledged Soviet respon...
View location →The families of the murdered officers wait in Kraków through German and then Soviet occupation — forbidden for decades to acknowledge the truth of the Soviet...
Kraków was the administrative centre of the General Government under Hans Frank. The families of Katyn victims lived under the double oppression of Nazism and then Stalinism. Poland's communist government enforced the...
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