Andrzej Wajda’s film Katyń is having its third showing today at the CUNY TV university cable network in New York. It is shown as part of the City Cinematheque series devoted to the best achievements of world cinema.

CUNY TV programmes can be viewed in the whole of the New York metropolis.

The station writes on its website that the massacre of Polish officers in Soviet Russia in 1940, in which Wajda lost his father, “is the story Wajda has waited a lifetime to tell. […] In this elegant production, Wajda recreates war-torn Poland and the stories of both the perpetrators and their victims. The film tells both the story of the massacre and its cover-up under Soviet rule. After the war, the families of the murdered had to live with the overall pain not only of this immense crime, but also of its manipulation by the totalitarian regime.”

The two previous shows of Katyń on CUNY TV were on 1 and 2 of May.

The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. In Poland, it has attracted an audience of over 2.7 million. (mk)