The newest Andrzej Wajda’s movie Katyn has been nominated for Oscar in the category of the best foreign language film of the year. Wajda got an Oscar for Life Achievement in 2000.

Katyn describes the history of the massacre of Polish officers in 1940. Taken prisoner by the Red Army in September 1939 they were executed after the order signed by Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Beria and the rest members of Soviet Politburo on March 5, 1940.

Andrzej Wajda’s film is is based on Andrzej Mularczyk’s book Post mortem - the Katyn story. Released on September 2007, it attracted an audience of over three million people. In one of the interviews Wajda stressed, that the film would not have seen the light of day during the communist period. He hoped his film will be followed by more on the same topic.

In this article you can read about the polish memory of Katyn massacre in the context of researches by polish sociologist Barbara Szacka.

Another historical films nominated in the 80th Annual Academy Awards category of best foreign language film are: Mongol (the first Academy Award nomination for Kazakhstan) and The Counterfeiters (In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a group of prisoners with skills ranging from finance to forgery are put to work under the direction of a master counterfeiter manufacturing perfect replicas of foreign bank notes.),