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Evidence of Crime - Katyń 1940 - 2010

Evidence of Crime: Katyn 1940-2010 is a Polish documentary written and directed in 2008 by Paulina Maciejowska. In March 1940, on Stalin's orders, the Soviet government signed a secret decree, ordering the execution of Polish "nationalist anti-revolutionaries" held in camps and prisons. This was carried out by the secret police N.K.W.D. Some 22,000 army officers, teachers, priests, doctors and Polish intellectuals were murdered. The massacre took place in the Katyn Forest, in the Smolensk region, and the families of those murdered were exiled to remote places in Asia. The fate of those murdered was unknown...

Director : Paulina Maciejowska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 44

Language : Polish

900 ימים

A documentary film. The Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. That myth is in painful contrast with the horrific truth they were forbidden to mention all these years.

Director : Jessica Gorter

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 77

Language : Russian