The opening Gala Night on the 6th of March’08 at IMAX ADLABS will mark the screening of the Oscar nominated film “Katyn”

A hidden historical truth-KATYN


“They are to witness God will count
and take pity on them
Yet how can they resurrect body
being a sticky element of the soil

A bird flew by a cloud is sailing
A leaf is falling mallow sprouting
and there’s silence on high
and the Smolensk forest is steaming fog”

These words do seem a bit tough but it does put a picture on what the Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s film, Katyn, which made its debut in India at the annual 10th Mami International Film Festival, Mumbai wants to portray. The film has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (Poland) at Oscars this year and will hold a special place at the opening gala night.

The opening Gala Night on the 6th of March’08 at IMAX ADLABS will mark the screening of the Oscar nominated film “Katyn”. The film was premiered at the recently concluded 58th Berlin Film Festival. The film talks about individual sufferings & emotions rather than boring historical facts. Produced with the most advanced technologies this film boasts of being the only film not only in Poland but the entire Europe to be shot on 4K technology. (4K is a technology which enables four times higher resolution in post production than commonly used 2K process). ). A must watch film; Director Andrzej Wajda is one genius to look out for with the kind of films he has managed throughout the festival.


The big screen image of Katyń will enter collective memory as a presentation of innocent Polish deaths and the covered-up truth, which will be shown in its brutal dimensions.
Katyń is consciously-made simple cinema, moving, and exposing not only the very crime, but also the lie about it. The cinematography is brilliant considering the fact that the use of 4K technology instead of the 2K technology is soothing to eyes as it guarantees minute details of each & every shot.

It is an extraordinary, magnificent film which comes to heal a ragged wound in the Polish soul of 15,000 men is an extra-ordinary film of brilliance. Six decades long and countless families deep, it does not do justice for this unpunished crime but does manage to unearth and present the truth. It contributes to such an aim but rather by living through the entire Katyn ordeal with the audience who mourn with the bereaved and by preserving its history by breathing it into those learning from the film.

Katyn is both a crime, and a lie. The film addresses both, following the captured officers taken to the Soviet Union as they maintain their spirits and discipline in hopes of regaining the opportunity to return to fight for their homes and families, and those families who cherish that same hope of return for their husbands, sons, and brothers, only to see it dashed and buried.But the film is about more than the mass murder itself.

This film is also very important in terms of world history. It also captures the moment after WW2. A must watch for history lovers, this film will be remembered throughout the festival.

The film will be shown at all four screens of IMAX Adlabs on the 6th of March at evening 7pm.