POLISH FILM DIRECTOR’S MOTION PICTURE ABOUT THE TRAGEDY IN KATYŃ WAS SHOWED IN VILNIUS
On April 15, motion picture Katyń by Polish director Andrzej Wajda was screened at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Patrons of the event were President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus and President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński.
The motion picture was nominated for the Oscar, an award by the U.S.A. Academy of Motion Picture Arts. It centers around one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century, when over 20,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals of the Polish nation were massacred at Katyń forest near Smolensk. The tragedy that happened in 1940 had its beginnings in the arrangement between Hitler and Stalin in the 20th century.
During the event, Speaker of the Seimas (the Lithuanian Parliament) Česlovas Juršėnas conveyed condolences to the Polish nation and the family members of the murdered, and indicated that it was very important to evaluate the crimes of totalitarian regimes. Speaker of the Parliament also invited to revitalize an old idea and to erect a monument for the Katyń victims in Vilnius, in Lithuania.
The film screening was organised by the Polish Embassy in Lithuania and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.
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