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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Fwd: [Central Europe Newsletter] Russia: premiere of 'Katyn' in March From: "Zugravu Gh." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, February 19, 2008 13:23 To: "oberlist mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a forwarded message From: Panorama Kultur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 11:57:56 AM Subject: [Central Europe Newsletter] Russia: premiere of 'Katyn' in March ===8<==============Original message text=============== Russian premiere of Katyn in March Andrzej Wajda's "Katyn," nominated to the Academy Award, will have its official premiere in Moscow on March 17, director of the Polish Film Institute (PISF) Agnieszka Odorowicz told PAP on Monday. She added the premiere for Memorial, Russian non-governmental organisation documenting communist crimes, will take place on March 18 and the third show, for artists, will be organised on March 19. Later the movie will be shown in St. Petersburg but the date is still unknown, the PISF director added. "We have invited the Russian Federal Culture and Cinematography Agency to co-organise the show," Odorowicz said. "Katyn" tells the story of the so-called Katyn crime. It uses stories from an authentic diary found during the exhumation to tell the fate of four fictional officers and their families. Wajda's father, lt. Jakub Wajda, then 43, was among the Polish officers taken prisoner by the Soviet army and killed by a shot at the back of the head in the Katyn forest. In March 1940 Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the executions of 22,000 Polish army and police officers, intellectuals and clergy. The killings took place in the spring of the same year in the Katyn Forest. The victims, mostly from POW camps in Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszkow, were shot in the back of the head. The Nazis discovered the mass graves during their march on Moscow in the fall of 1941, but Soviet propaganda blamed the deaths on Adolf Hitler and punished anyone speaking the truth with harsh prison terms. In 1990, Moscow admitted that dictator Josef Stalin's secret police were responsible. KM/AT PAP - Nauka w Polsce http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=cms_naukapl.pap.pl&_PageID=1&s=szablon.depesza&dz=szablon.depesza&dep=70807&data=&lang=&_CheckSum=-83191833 _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
