Special Programs - Katyn - Free Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Join the Center for International Education and the Institute of World Affairs for the Milwaukee Premier of Katyn
Polish director Andrzej Wajda helms this Oscar-nominated (Best Foreign Language Film 2007) drama based on the 1940 massacre of some 20,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia at the hands of Soviet troops, along with the stories of the wives and children who survived them. How did they carry on in the face of such horror, especially when responsibility was publicly denied by the perpetrators? Joachim Paul Assböck, Andrzej Chyra and Stanislawa Celinska star.
Click Here for the film's website
Click Here for an article featuring Katyn in the International Herald Tribune
2 FREE Screenings:
- Wednesday, April 29th @ 7:00pm*
- Thursday, April 30th @ 7:00pm
*Panel Discussion will follow Wednesday's screening only.
Sponsors
UWM Center for International Education
UWM Cinema and Media Studies Program
UWM College of Letters and Science
UWM Polish Studies Committee
UWM Union Cinema
Wisconsin Division of the Polish American Congress.
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