Wajda’s Katyn Poland’s Oscar candidate (see picture gallery)

thenews.pl ^ | September 23. 2007

[lizol]

That is a jeep actually.

The actor who's sitting on the jeep plays a role of an officer, who at first had been a POW in a Soviet camp - together with the rest of his colleagues, who got murdered in Katyn.
These are pictures showing him at that time (with a lieutenant insignia on his shoulders)




But later he turned out to be one of the very few officers, who decided to collaborate with the Soviets.
Owing to that he saved his life and became a major.

And here you can see him as a major of pro-Soviet Polish Army in 1944 or 1945 (visiting the wife of his friend, who had fallen in Katyn)

[lizol]

It has just been released in Poland (on September 21st).

But I’m sure very soon there will be some version with English subtitles.

[Little Bill]

Looks like my ex, a Pollock, she had blue eyes though.

[dfwgator]

Looks like my ex, a Pollock, she had blue eyes though.

You married a fish? Maybe that's why it didn't work out. ;)

[Little Bill]

No, I thnk that her family were Lithuanian Tartars, going real deep in Polish history, on her fathers side, You need a set of spurs.

The only problem with Pols/Lits is that they all end up looking like Bapchi.

[an amused spectator]

Katyn was fouler than genocide. It's in a category all of its own.

As you know, unlike the armies of most countries, the Polish officer corps in World War II was composed of the leading men of Polish society - judges, intellectuals, professors, political leaders and the like. This has always been a tradition of the Poles.

By murdering these men, Stalin and his minions were setting up the remaining Poles for total enslavement, in perpetuity.

Fortunately, the Poles being the Poles, eventually, a Man of Iron would come along, and upset the Soviet applecart in Poland...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Touching, thanks. Will it be available with English subtitles?

[tompol]

No anachronism - this scene takes place in 1945 and Roosevelt had been sending hundreds of thousands of jeeps to Russia through the Lend-Lease program since 1941...