Andrzej Wajda: “Katyn” blames Stalin’s regime

A film “Katyn” by famous polish director Andrzej Wajda is to be shown in Hrodna on 8 February in the frames of celebration the Year of Belarusian Statehood-2008 and campaign Free Cinema.

Organisers of the film exhibition, members of the Hrodna department of the “For Freedom” movement received a letter from Andrzej Wajda. The film director welcomes the initiative to show “Katyn” in Hrodna.

“This film doesn’t sow the seeds of hatred, or call for revenge, but blames the Stalin’s regime, inhuman towards own people, both Belarusians and Polish. This truth should be revealed if we want the real unity of peoples,” Andrzej Wajda writes in the letter to the organisers of the screening.

“Hrodna is a town I remember since my childhood, when I lived in Suwalki with my parents, where my father was an officer of the 41th infantry regiment. The film shows the tragic destiny of that regiment and life story of my mother,” great polish film director explains his interest in the Katyn massacre, when polish officers were executed by soviet NKVD during the WW II.