Katyn

present the film

based on Andrzej

Mularczyk's novel Post Mortem..

Screenplay by

Starring

as Major Popov

And

Sound

Makeup

Costume Designer

Uniforms and Military Items by

Set Designer

Interior Designer

Photography of

the September 1 939 sequence by

Edited by

Production Manager

Executive Producer

Producer

Music

Director of Photography

Directed by

September 1 7, 1 939

Where to, folks?!

There are Germans behind us!

The Soviets have entered!

Where are you going?

Turn back!

The Russkies have entered!

Faster!

Germans are behind us...

Mrs. Anna! Mrs. Anna!

Where to?

I'm looking for my husband.

Where are they?

You don't know?

The Soviets attacked at dawn.

My husband told me to return

to Cracow immediately.

My husband knows

what's he talking about.

- Madam...

- They must know that we're safe.

Why jeopardize yourself and the kid?

Be reasonable.

- Madame, please.

- Start.

Nika!

Where are you?!

My God, Nika!

Nika...

Come, doggie.

Nothing to be scared of.

I told you to stick with me!

He's alone and scared.

Let's take him along.

We can't. We're in a hurry.

He may be waiting for his master.

Excuse me, do you

know where the 8th

- Cracow Uhlan Regiment is?

- The uhlans are no more.

And the officers?

Where's the staff?

There's a hospital

in the church.

They may know something.

Ask them.

- Is dad there?

- I don't know. We'll see.

In nomine Patris, et Filii,

et Spiritus Sancti...

- Mom, the coat.

- What coat?

Dad's coat.

I can tell by the blue ribbon.

Hold this.

- What's happening?

- The President's address!

The president's address!

Come!

... until today has

withstood the onslaught

of the overwhelming

German forces,

our eastern neighbor

has invaded our lands in violation

of covenants, and the immutable

principles of morality.

Warsaw as the capital

is no more!

- Who's that?

- Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister.

- The Soviets are everywhere.

- Where are the officers?

The POW's are at the station

if they're there.

- They were to be transported to Russia.

- Thank you. Hurry up Niki.

- You can leave her with me.

- I want to come along.

Wait here.

I'll be back with daddy.

I have another bicycle.

Take this for your husband.

- I'll be right back.

- Grzes, see the lady off.

Take the bicycle

and leave it there.

September 1 7, 1 939

The Bolsheviks have entered.

Surrounded by Soviet tanks,

we surrender weapons.

They take us for POW's

though there was no war with them.

They have separated the officers

and let the soldiers go home,

but have retained us, the officers.

I'll try to write from time to time

to let you know

what happen to me

if I died and didn't return.

Maybe this notebook

will be sent to you.

- They're dividing us.

- Wait a minute.

What're you doing?

I've decided to describe

everything I've seen here

day by day.

The Germans take our soldiers,

the Soviets, our officers.

Makes no difference.

Captivity is captivity.

No honor to an officer.

- I see only the dark side.

- Meaning?

Moscow hasn't signed

the Geneva Convention.

How long do you think

their friendship will last?

Hitler declared

a 1 000-year-old Reich

and communism is forever.

Greetings to the representatives

of the German Army.

First Lieutenant of the NKVD Kozlov.

A thousand years at least.

- You never lose your sense of humor.

- My common sense rather.

- How goes it, comrades?

- Fine.

Their alliance won't last a year,

which means they'll

need us very badly.

Who?

One transport to Smolensk,

the second, to Belgorod,

and the third to Kharkov.

- Anna? Your wife?

- Why, She's in Cracow.

What're you doing here, Anna?

Why aren't you in Cracow?

- Where's Nika?

- Andrzej...

- Andrzej, I thought...

- Where's Nika?

You'll see her

in the presbytery.

What presbytery?

What presbytery?

Nearby. I have another

bicycle for you. Just change.

They're not watching closely.

I got thru with no problem.

What do you mean?

I want you to be with us,

to take care of me

and our daughter.

Anna, listen to me...

You're a wife of a Polish officer.

This conversation is pointless.

Pointless? I've traveled across

half of Poland to you!

I'm bound by my military pledge.

You swore to me...

before God.

Till death do us part,

you've forgotten?

I swore to them too.

You just don't love us.

- By God, Anna, calm down.

- I beg you...

I beg you, Andrzej...

No talking to the prisoner!

- Andrzej.

- All will be well.

- Daddy!

- Niki.

Don't go away!

Take her.

- Take her away.

- Come, darling.

Take care.

Nika!

Daddy!

Daddy!

Daddy!

THE YOUNGEST CAVALRY CAPTAIN...

Maybe the navy blue

would be better?

No, thank you, my dear.

I thought you were working.

I found an old paper

with Andrzej's photo

when he was the youngest

cavalry captain in the Polish Army.

Our son lives. He's in captivity,

but he lives.

Thank you.

- Will you have a speech today?

- Not today.

We have to listen to the lecture

of that SS officer... Mller?

- I told you.

- We need to buy a new jacket.

Mller. Doctor Mller.

Does he have

a scientific degree,

- that Mller?

- Yes. He calls himself

police government adviser.

Dr. Mller.

Jan...

...you don't want to go there?

Out of the question.

We all must be there.

We can't leave

the chancellor alone.

The Germans must believe

that we are of one mind

when it comes to the independence

of the university.

Cracow, Nov. 6, 1 939

German Occupation Zone

Hello... hello.

Yes, Chancellor.

Hello...

Gentlemen,

We have been informed

that, at the university,

you start classes, seminars

and exams without our consent.

You don't seem to realize

the plight you're in.

This kind of conduct

is a hostile act

against Germany.

In fact the university was always

a major hotbed of scientific struggle

against Germany, the center

of anti-German propaganda.

The university is closed.

You all are under arrest.

You'll go to a labor camp

where you'll have enough time

to think over your behavior until now.

- Excuse me...

- Any discussion is useless.

I categorically protest

on behalf of the university.

Comments are forbidden.

Whoever will try to disobey

orders will be shot.

Chancellor, you go first.

November 1 939

Camp in Kozielsk, USSR.

Everybody fled:
police stations,

high command. I know only one word:

- treason.

- Easy to judge others

- when you didn't fight.

- You didn't give me any weapon.

The camp does not justify

a breach of rules and conduct.

- It's a fitting term: treason!

- Soviet propaganda, lieutenant!

- The truth is quite different.

- Look for it in Romania,

- where our C. -in-C. has fled.

- Who's guilty

that we were unprepared?

History will judge

the guilty of the disaster.

Rehearsed platitudes, those, I think

though I have fewer stars than you.

- I'm an engineer, I design planes.

- The uniform is an honor.

- The Polish uniform.

- Shove the honor. I'd rather fight!

Don't jump at each other's throat.

Here? Before the Soviets?

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