The second festival of Polish Films opens tonight in Moscow under the honorary patronage of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
18 Polish feature films will be presented at the festival, which continues until April 15th at one of the main Moscow cinemas.
Conspicuous by its absence at the festival is Andrzej Wajda’s “Katyń” which tells the story of thousands of Polish officers murdered by Soviet NKVD in WW2, ostensibly because rights to the picture are held by a Russian distributor.
The film is now being shown in Smolensk.
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