Next month, the haunting true wartime story of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's Katyń is to be shown in UK cinamas. Radio ORLA fm is proud to be a media patron for its distribution.

Katyń was released in Polish cinemas last year and has since been screened around the world. It has also amassed much recognition and many awards for the account of how at least 22,000 Polish officers and other intelligentsia were murdered on Jozef Stalin's orders in the Soviet forest of Katyń in 1940. The Nazi German forces of Von Paulus uncovered the shallow graves in 1943, and the Soviets for decades later blamed the Nazis. But eventually in 1990 the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev admitted the Russians' hands in the intended genocide of Poland's elite.

Now the harrowing story is the subject of a major film by acclaimed Wajda in his first movie in seven years.

Look at some of the awards for Katyń:

European Film Academy Prix D’Excellence - European Film Awards 2008.

Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Supporting Actress,

Best Costume Design – Polish Film Awards 2008.

The Polish Entry for Best Foreign Language Film nominee, the 80th Academy Awards® 2008.

Starring
Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej Chyra & Danuta Stenka

Certificate 15 / Poland / 2007 / 118 Mins / In Polish with English subtitles / In Colour / Scope

UK RELEASE DATE:  19 JUNE 2009

Also opening at Selected West End Venues

& regional venues around the country