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Subject: [Central Europe Newsletter] Russia: premiere of 'Katyn' in March

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  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

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