- Rating:
- 60%
- Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2007
- Predominant Genre:
- War
- Plot:
- Examines the slaughter of thousands of officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
- Themes:
- Unknown
- Similar Titles:
- Unknown
- Best Performances:
- None
Closed Family Album
Anecdotal story of a family tragedy that obsesses with the concept and practice of the truth, yet never rises above a mere genealogical preoccupation with one’s antecedents.
A story, of course, that needs to be told since the truth honors both the living as well as the dead. But there is no story here that we, who have not suffered as the central characters here have, can take away with us from our own lives to help us reach a greater understanding of this historical event.
The elliptical narrative makes empathy and identification with the characters difficult, so we never really warm to the theme of the Soviet version of historical truth and the moral compromises entailed in a Poland occupied by Russians, Germans then Russians, again - until 1989.
Well-made and handsome-looking, but little more than looking at someone else’s vaguely-interesting family photo album.
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